ALLTEL Selects Fujitsu Platforms for Michigan Network Infrastructure.Business Editors & Technology Writers LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 2002 ALLTEL (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AT) today announced that Fujitsu Network Communications Inc., a leading provider of next-generation optical transport equipment, will provide ALLTEL with a wide range of Fujitsu FLASHWAVE(R) 4000 optical transport platforms for ALLTEL's Michigan Michigan (mĭsh`ĭgən), upper midwestern state of the United States. It consists of two peninsulas thrusting into the Great Lakes and has borders with Ohio and Indiana (S), Wisconsin (W), and the Canadian province of Ontario (N,E). ring AXN AXN Accion (Spanish: Action) AXN Action Network AXN Autotask Extend Network network infrastructure. "After thorough testing and analysis, ALLTEL selected Fujitsu Network Communications products for their extensive capabilities and competitive pricing," said Dennis Roofe Jr., ALLTEL network transport engineer. "The Fujitsu transport equipment will provide highly reliable, enhanced-capacity connectivity for our communications customers." ALLTEL will begin work immediately with Fujitsu's service organization, Fujitsu network services, on a rapid deployment of the Michigan network. ALLTEL, with more than 12 million communications customers and more than $7.5 billion in annual revenues, is a leader in the communications and information services See Information Systems. industries. ALLTEL has communications customers in 26 states and provides information services to telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , financial and mortgage clients in more than 50 countries. |
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