B-Telecom Selects Lucent Technologies for Access Equipment to Enable Ethernet Services Rollout across Belgium.GROOT-BIJGAARDEN, Belgium -- Lucent to work with business partner Imtech Telecom to provide metro Ethernet A metropolitan area network (MAN) that uses a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) backbone rather than SONET/SDH links. Ethernet offers a more economical alternative. In a Metro Ethernet network, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) may be deployed to provide quality of service (QoS). infrastructure Lucent Technologies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LU) today announced that it has been selected by B-Telecom, a leading service provider based in Belgium, to provide multiservice optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. infrastructure to support its roll-out of Ethernet services to its business customers. The deployment enables B-Telecom to provide revenue-generating services such as transparent Ethernet Private Lines and Ethernet Private LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. Services as well as managed IP services using Lucent's proven Ethernet over SDH Ethernet Over SDH (EoS) or Ethernet over SONET refers to a set of protocols which allow Ethernet traffic to be carried over synchronous digital hierarchy networks in an efficient and flexible way. (synchronous digital hierarchy (communications, standard) Synchronous Digital Hierarchy - (SDH) An international digital telecommunications network hierarchy which standardises transmission around the bit rate of 51.84 megabits per second, which is also called STS-1. ) solution. Lucent is working with business partner Imtech Telecom to support the implementation of these services as well as to assure the 24-hour, seven-day a week maintenance services with a four hour response time. "We selected Lucent as a market leader in the development and understanding of Ethernet over SDH," said Roland Matthys, Manager - Marketing & Sales for B-Telecom. "Working with Lucent and Imtech Telecom for this project will ensure that we are able to offer secure, reliable, flexible and cost-competitive services to our customers." "This is an example of Lucent continuing to work closely with customers to identify relevant, profitable and cost effective means of creating revenue generating services for their end users," said Beatrice Duleba, Sales Director, Business Partner France & Belgium, Lucent Technologies. "We look forward to working with B-Telecom as they develop their service offerings." The Lucent solution is designed to create a service converged platform by working with existing optical networking infrastructure to offer cost-effective multiservice support without the expense of creating and maintaining a separate overlay data network. B-Telecom is one of the first service providers to have deployed Ethernet over SDH services in Belgium. "Imtech Telecom, already being a technical partner of B-Telecom for optical services delivery combined with its deep knowledge and broad expertise on optical networking as well as a solid key-vendor relationship with Lucent, has strongly contributed to B-Telecom's decision to select the Lucent solutions," said Filip Simoens, General Manager of Imtech Telecom. "Therefore we are looking forward to make this roll-out of Ethernet services a great success for B-Telecom." Lucent is providing B-Telecom with its high-speed platform that combines the speed and reliability of optical backbones with proven and ubiquitous Ethernet technology that is the standard in local area networks. The Metropolis(R) AM and Metropolis(R) AMS AMS - Andrew Message System multiplexers equipped with TransLAN(R) optional cards for Ethernet transport capability between customers' businesses in multiple locations, form the basis of Lucent's access SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy solution. Lucent's TransLAN(R) technology is available across the whole managed SDH Metropolis(R) product portfolio ranging from access to core. The TransLAN(R) platform can also be extended by B-Telecom to offer Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. services in the future. For more information: http://www.lucent.com/solutions/metro_optical.html About Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information on Lucent Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill Murray Hill may refer to one of the following places:
About Imtech Telecom Imtech Telecom is a pan-European telecom network integrator for carrier-class fixed and mobile networks. Imtech Telecom is part of the group Imtech NV. Imtech N.V. is a European technical service provider in the field of information and communication technology, electrical engineering & mechanical engineering. With approximately 14,000 employees Imtech realizes an annual turnover of approximately 2.0 billion Euro. Imtech holds strong positions in the construction, maritime technology, infrastructure and telecoms markets in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and The Netherlands and is also active in the U.K. and Spain. Imtech shares are listed at the Euronext Stock Exchange (Amsterdam), where Imtech is included in the Midkap index (AMX AMX American Motors Experimental AMX Aeromexico Aerovias de Mexico (ICAO code) AMX Air Mobility Express AMX Amberjacks (FAO fish species code) AMX Alabama Motor eXpress ) and the Next 150 index. For more information on Imtech Telecom, visit www.imtech-telecom.be About B-Telecom B-Telecom is the commercial department of the Belgian Railways that provides the Belgian market with telecom services based on its optical network. More than 200,000 km of optical fibres cover virtually the entire country, including the major ports and leading industrial and commercial centres. The telecom services offered by B-Telecom are based on secure SDH rings, able to cope with E1, E3, T3, STM-1 and STM-4 circuits allowing the provision of Ethernet services and the implementation of DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing technology suitable for specific applications such as Gigabit Ethernet, FICON (FIber CONnector) An IBM mainframe channel introduced with its G5 servers in 1998. Based on the Fibre Channel standard, it boosts the transfer rate of ESCON's half-duplex 17MB/sec to a full-duplex 100MB/sec. , ESCON (Enterprise Systems CONnection) An IBM S/390 fiber-optic channel that transfers 17 Mbytes/sec over distances up to 60 km depending on connection type. ESCON allows peripheral devices to be located across large campuses and metropolitan areas. , Fibre Channel, etc. Key customers of B-Telecom are telecom operators, large-scale industry, banks, ministries, public services organisations and more. For more information on B-Telecom, visit www.telecomrail.com |
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