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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 15, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 37
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Breaking News -
Networking:
AT&T Selects Lucent To Provide
Next-Generation SONET
Lucent Technologies announced a multi-year agreement with AT&T to provide
advanced optical technology as part of AT&T's next-generation intelligent
optical network. Lucent is providing the Metropolis DMX Access Multiplexer and
the Metropolis DMXtend Access Multiplexer, SONET (Synchronous Optical
NETworking) systems designed to increase network capacity and enable new
revenue-generating, high-speed services in metropolitan networks.
Lucent Worldwide Services also is providing program management, engineering
and installation services to support the implementation of the technology.
"Lucent's next-generation SONET technology is an excellent fit with AT&T's
local network transformation and on-net plans, which enable benefits for AT&T
customers in the form of higher reliability, shorter cycle times, and
innovative end-to-end services," said Reed Harrison, who leads AT&T's
worldwide network. "The DMX and DMXtend technology will play a key role in our
overall program to converge and simplify products, networks, processes,
systems, and organizations across our entire business."
"Lucent's next-generation SONET technology provides AT&T with a full range
of
SONET and Ethernet services, while allowing them to leverage their embedded
base," said Janet Davidson, president of the Integrated Network Solutions
Group for Lucent Technologies. "That AT&T has chosen DMX products to expand
its next-generation intelligent optical network underscores the confidence
AT&T has in Lucent's optical technology, products and capabilities."
The Metropolis DMX portfolio is being used by more than 70 customers
worldwide
to address the challenge they face in their metropolitan networks. Massive
core communications networks meet the traffic demands of millions of
individual businesses and residential customers in the nation's cities. Many
of these major metropolitan areas have become networking bottlenecks,
preventing the cost-effective delivery of high-bandwidth and IP services to
businesses and consumers. Lucent Metropolis provides a broad portfolio of
products that can eliminate the bottleneck in the metropolitan network,
allowing service providers to deliver new high-speed, revenue-generating
services such as gigabit Ethernet, virtual private networks (VPN), storage
area networks and digital subscriber lines (DSL).
The Metropolis DMX family includes the DMX Access Multiplexer for central
office and large enterprise applications, the DMXpress for customer premises
applications, DMXtend, for enterprise and loop access applications, and
DMXplore to deliver next-generation SONET services economically right to the
customer's premises. All provide compatible next-generation SONET
functionality and serve as integrated Ethernet over SONET metro platforms.
When used together, the products in the portfolio create an end-to-end
solution that allows carriers to offer faster, more sophisticated services
while lowering operating costs.
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