China Mobile deploys Alcatel-Lucent's packet-optical transport technology
JULY 31, 2008 -- Alcatel-Lucent (search for Alcatel-Lucent) has deployed its packet optical transport technology for Shanghai Mobile, a subsidiary of China Mobile, as part of the wireless carrier's IP network transformation. The project provides Shanghai Mobile with a converged infrastructure able to support mobile data traffic and innovative applications, while optimizing network availability, reducing backhaul costs, and increasing service reach.
Completed in time for the 2008 Olympic Games, the network is designed to support full packet traffic, including high-speed Internet and video services. The contract was signed through Alcatel-Lucent's flagship company in China, Alcatel Shanghai Bell.
Alcatel-Lucent says its new packet transport infrastructure provides Shanghai Mobile with the higher speed connectivity required to efficiently deliver new, content-rich multimedia applications such as mobile video and music on demand. This technology significantly enhances the network's backhaul capacity, efficiency and service delivery. Alcatel-Lucent's offering is part of its Mobile Evolution Transport Architecture (META), which it claims is the industry's most comprehensive vision for the evolution of mobile networks from TDM to all-IP.
"Alcatel-Lucent's packet optical transport solution helps us further differentiate in today's competitive marketplace and address the increased needs of data services and IP network transformation," reports Wan Guoguang, deputy general manager of Shanghai Mobile. "We can better support mobile traffic end-to-end with greater flexibility and reliability, while decreasing our operating costs."
"Our packet-optical solution supports Shanghai Mobile in transforming its business model in synch with the service changes that the market is dictating," adds Olivia Qiu, president of Alcatel Shanghai Bell. "This project is further proof of our ability to help our customers smoothly and cost-effectively evolve their networks to cope with new market requirements according to their specific needs."
Alcatel-Lucent is providing its 1850 Transport Service Switch (TSS), to be managed by the 1350 network management system. It will enable Shanghai Mobile to transition from a circuit-based to a packet-based transport infrastructure, while supporting existing services and the increased traffic driven by mobile business and entertainment services. Aggregating the traffic in the major metropolitan points of presence and integrating WDM capabilities, Alcatel-Lucent says it meets Shanghai Mobile's network requirements to provide full reliability and operational efficiency across the packet transport network.
This new contract also reinforces the cooperation with China Mobile's subsequent trial of the transport multi-protocol label switching (T-MPLS)/MPLS transport profile (MPLS-TP) capabilities of the 1850 TSS, say Alcatel-Lucent representatives.
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