Lucent Technologies to provide Optical Management System to SK Telecom
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Lucent Technologies won the contract to supply optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light, to South Korea’s largest wireless service provider, SK Telecom. As per the contract, next-generation optical cross connect system, the LambdaUnite, and Multiservice Switch will be delivered by Lucent to major central offices of SK Telecom.
Optical Management System of Lucent will provide network management and provisioning capabilities while its Worldwide Services will provide professional technical support. The optical network will have greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain and will also be far more reliable.
The advanced optical cross connect platform will also enable SK Telecom to deliver customized and value-added services and applications to their customers impeccably. According to Bart Vogel, president of Lucent Technologies Asia Pacific, Korea is one of the world’s leading and sophisticated telecommunications markets and the fact that SK Telecom has chosen Lucent’s optical cross connect system is a clear indication of their faith in its solution.
According to the report released by Dell’Oro Group, a leading telecom market analysis firm, the LambdaUnite MSS holds the number one position in the global optical cross connect market for the last year.
Alcatel-Lucent wins optical backhaul upgrade deal with Telkomsel
Indonesia’s leading mobile operator by subscribers, PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel), has selected Alcatel-Lucent to supply it with an intelligent optical networking solution. Under the deal, the vendor will expand and upgrade Telkomsel’s existing network with optical cross-connect and multi-service technologies, based on its 1678 Metro Core Connect (MCC) and data-aware Optical Multi-Service Node (OMSN) systems, to enhance the cellco’s current backhaul capacity and aggregation capabilities. Alcatel-Lucent is also providing Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON) and Generalised MPLS (GMPLS) technologies as part of the deal. The Alcatel-Lucent solution will be managed by its 1350 management suite, a portfolio of applications to manage packet, circuit and wavelength services.
