Alcatel Completes Construction for Level 3's European Ring 1 Network in France and Germany.Business/Technology Editors PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2000 Alcatel (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ALA) today announced that it has completed Ring 1 network construction for Level 3 in France and Germany. The 1400 km French and German portions of the Level 3 network connect Calais, Lille, Amiens, Paris, Nancy, Strasbourg, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf, among other cities. Alcatel was selected by Level 3 for the deployment of infrastructure and optical fibre cable in the French and German portions of Ring 1 of its European network as well as the cross-channel submarine link between Belgium and the UK. The French and German portions of the Level 3 network are part of the approximately 3,000 kilometer kilometer one thousand (103) meters; 3280.83 feet; five-eighths of a mile; abbreviated km. Ring 1, which connects London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris and Brussels. "The Level 3 network will play a major part in enabling the development of the new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. economy in Europe," said Colin Williams, executive vice president of Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications NASDAQ: LVLT is a communications and information services company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, USA. . "We expect to be able to drive down communications costs substantially, which in turn will continue to drive both demand for communications services and new applications whose successful development depends on removing the cost constraint Constraint A restriction on the natural degrees of freedom of a system. If n and m are the numbers of the natural and actual degrees of freedom, the difference n - m is the number of constraints. of transporting information." "Alcatel is very pleased to have built this portion of Level 3's pan-European IP network. We have deployed in a record time of only 16 months, a network relying on the most advanced technologies that will enable the development of the Internet in Europe," said Serge Tchuruk Serge Tchurukdichian (born November 13, 1937), known as Serge Tchuruk, is a French businessman of Armenian descent. He was the Chief Executive Officer and chairman of Alcatel (a global telecommunications company) till the end of November 2006 and is now the chairman of , Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Alcatel. The services provided by Alcatel range from network design and engineering, rights of way, project and civil works management, optical fiber cable deployment to transmission equipment. About Alcatel Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 120,000 employees and sales of EURO 23 billion in 1999, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For further information, www.alcatel.com |
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