ALCATEL SETS INDUSTRY BENCHMARKS TO COMPLETE SPRINT RING SERVING FIVE-STATE AREA.RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 1995--Sprint and Alcatel Network Systems today announced another milestone in the deployment of the world's most advanced fiber optic ring technology for enhanced voice, video and data services. The two companies have completed an 1800-mile, four-fiber bi-directional line-switched ring (BLSR BLSR Bi-directional Line Switched Ring (SONET) BLSR Batch Local Shared Resources (IBM mainframes) BLSR Baseline Security Requirements BLSR Bidirectional Line Switched Ring ) through Massachusetts, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. This ring serves Sprint customers in the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Buffalo, Springfield, Mass., and Akron, Ohio Akron is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County.GR6 The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland to the north and Canton to the south, approximately 60 miles (96 km) west of metropolitan areas and elsewhere. This ring technology and Alcatel's expertise mean the most reliable services for Sprint customers. Four-fiber BLSR architecture gives the network "self-healing" SONET capability, which allows recovery from network outages A network outage is an interruption in availability of a system due to the communication failure of the network. Network outages cost money directly to the organisation (for example Banks, Airlines, Online Transaction companies); or cost money indirectly to customers ISP, in literally the blink of an eye. Fiber cuts, an industry problem, will go unnoticed on voice calls made on the Sprint network. Video transmissions will experience a brief flicker, but the picture will remain. Data transmissions will not be lost. "We are proud of our achievements in the Sprint SONET project," said Bob Reed Robert Reed (born February 23, 1943 in Longview, Texas) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football for Tennessee State University. , Alcatel Vice President for Product Line Management. "We will continue to push the technology and performance envelope in bringing the most efficient and reliable network services to our customers and theirs." "These types of SONET rings are the most advanced in the industry," said George Fuciu, senior vice president -- Network/IS for Sprint. "Our unique ring design sets us apart from the competition. Alcatel has been working diligently on both the hardware and software needed to support Sprint as we raise our customers' expectations beyond our competition's reach." The Sprint ring contains 16 Alcatel 1648 SM SONET add/drop multiplexers and 20 1648 SM regenerators. The four-fiber BLSR has 16 traffic nodes, for a total capacity of over 516,000 simultaneous voice equivalent channels (32,000 calls from node to node) and provides 100 percent survivability sur·viv·a·ble adj. 1. Capable of surviving: survivable organisms in a hostile environment. 2. That can be survived: a survivable, but very serious, illness. around the ring. Alcatel also set industry precedents in two areas. First, by means of advanced switching software technology, Alcatel more than doubled the 750-mile limit of the SONET reference BLSR model while maintaining optimum switching speed. Second, after Sprint had installed the equipment in a linear (one-way) ring configuration, Alcatel converted it into a four-fiber BLSR by remotely downloading software to the ring network from Alcatel's service center in Richardson without any affect on service. The whole process took less than 12 hours, saving thousands of dollars in employee travel, time and other expenses. As Sprint transfers traffic to SONET rings, Sprint customers remaining on the asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. network will enjoy increased survivability through expanded capacity. In March 1995, the two companies announced completion of a four-fiber BLSR serving the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Alcatel will demonstrate its four-fiber BLSR technology at the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference in Boston, June 19 - 21, at the Hynes Convention Center The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center located in Boston's Back Bay has 193,000 square feet (0 m) of exhibit space and can accommodate up to four concurrent events. . Alcatel Network Systems designs, manufactures and services a full line of voice, data, video and multimedia transmission products -- such as ATM switching systems Switching systems (communications) The assemblies of switching and control devices provided so that any station in a communications system may be connected as desired with any other station. , digital cross connects, fiber optic transmission systems, optical amplifiers, microwave radios, video codecs, and network management systems. These products are used in high performance networks throughout the telecommunications, broadcast and utility industries. The parent company, Alcatel, is one of the world's leading communications equipment manufacturers, with plants in 32 countries and markets in over 125 countries. Sprint is a diversified international telecommunications company See telecom company. with more than $12.6 billion in annual revenues in the United States' only nationwide all-digital, fiber optic network. Its divisions provide global long-distance voice, data and video products and services, local telephone services to more than 6.4 million subscriber lines in 19 states, and cellular services to more than one million customers in nearly 100 cities in 14 states. CONTACT: Alcatel Network Systems Michael Newsom, 214/996-7896 Internet: michael_newsom@aud.alcatel.com or Sprint Charles Fleckenstein, 913/967-2924 |
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