June 2, 2005 Beijing, China -- Lucent has announced two optical networking contracts with Zhongshan Telecom and Zhuhai Telecom, two local branch companies of Guangdong Telecom, a provincial subsidiary of China Telecom. The company will supply a range of optical equipment that it says will allow the two companies to cost-effectively optimize their existing network architectures, while expanding capacity to meet the increasing needs of emerging data services.
According to the terms of the contracts, the company will supply its LambdaUnite multi-service switch (MSS) and Metropolis ADM MultiService Mux for Guangdong Telecom's networks in Zhongshan and Zhuhai. The cities, located in the Pearl River Delta, a well-developed region in southern China, represent major markets for Guangdong Telecom. The company says the contracts mark the first deployment of its LambdaUnite MSS in the two cities and the first deployment of the Metropolis ADM for Zhuhai Telecom.
With the products, Zhuhai Telecom plans to build an integrated multi-service transport platform that supports both traditional voice services and new data services, including Ethernet. Zhongshan Telecom says it will leverage the LambdaUnite MSS to optimize its existing network for improved flexibility in circuit provisioning and management.
Lucent says its LambdaUnite MSS is next-generation optical transport system and switch that bridges traffic between data-intensive metro networks and high-speed optical core networks, in order to connect cities, campuses, and corporate networks to larger, long-haul public networks. The company says the platform enables service providers to seamlessly upgrade their networks, enabling delivery of value-added services such as Gigabit Ethernet. The company says the platform's mesh restoration capabilities allow service providers to migrate to mesh-based networks, while simultaneously leveraging traditional restoration architectures.
The Metropolis ADM MultiService Mux is part of the company's Metropolis family of metro optical platforms, which according to the company are designed to eliminate bottlenecks in existing metro networks. The company says the integrated Ethernet-over-SDH metro access multiplexer allows service providers to migrate from existing networks to data-aware packet networks. The company says the platform integrates seamlessly into carriers' existing infrastructure, eliminating the need for an overlay network to accomodate new services.