Alcatel Ships Record 20 Million DSL Lines; Deployment Rate Evidence of DSL as Favored Broadband Access Technology.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2002 Alcatel (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ALA), the world leader in broadband access, today announced it has reached a major deployment milestone by shipping 20 million digital subscriber lines (DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ), nearly four times that of its nearest competitor. With more than 70 DSL operator customers worldwide and a global market share of 37.3 percent, Alcatel has proven the success of its technology and the popularity of DSL. The 20 million lines encompass the full range of DSL solutions including asymmetric and symmetric digital subscriber lines (ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line , SHDSL SHDSL Single-Line High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line SHDSL Symmetrical High-Density Digital Subscriber Line SHDSL Symmetrical High Bitrate Digital Subscriber Line (Ericsson) SHDSL Symmetrical Highspeed Digital Subscriber Loop ) to deliver standards-based broadband services to residential and professional subscribers. Both are supported by the Alcatel 7300 Advanced Services Access Manager (ASAM ASAM American Society of Addiction Medicine ASAM Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile ASAM Advanced Services Access Manager ASAM ATM Subscriber Access Multiplexer (Alcatel) ASAM Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants ), which is the world's most widely deployed broadband access platform, and combined DSL/POTS lines on the Alcatel Litespan Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier In telephone communications, a technology that increases the number of channels in the local loop by converting analog signals to digital and multiplexing them back to the end office. (NGDLC NGDLC Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier ). "We think DSL will carry on growing strongly," said Tim Johnson, publisher of point-topic.com. "Point Topic reported nearly seven million DSL subscribers were added worldwide during the first half of this year. This means that DSL is already a mass market medium in the leading countries, and others are catching up rapidly. With all its technical and market advantages, we see DSL leading the development of a broadband world." Alcatel's extensive list of broadband customers includes some of the largest service providers around the world, such as Bell Canada, BellSouth, British Telecom, China Telecom, France Telecom, SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. , Telstra and Verizon. "DSL is the dominant broadband technology for service providers to offer new revenue generating services and Alcatel is leading the charge," said Michel Rahier, president of Alcatel's broadband networking activities. "We have reached this significant milestone in partnership with our customers. Alcatel remains committed to the continued delivery of a broadband access portfolio that enables our customers to offer high-speed services their subscribers want and will pay for." About Alcatel Alcatel designs, develops and builds innovative and competitive communications networks, enabling carriers, service providers and enterprises to deliver any type of content, such as voice, data and multimedia, to any type of consumer, anywhere in the world. Relying on its leading and comprehensive products and solutions portfolio, stretching from end-to-end optical infrastructures, fixed and mobile networks to broadband access, Alcatel's customers can focus on optimizing their service offerings and revenue streams. With sales of Euro 25 billion in 2001, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, http://www.alcatel.com |
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