ButlerNetworks launches service on nationwide optical backbone network.

Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) has announced that butlerNetworks A/S is carrying live voice and data traffic on its new optical backbone network built with Lucent's multiservice SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy) solutions and services.

Cygate Danmark, a Lucent Business Partner, helped butlerNetworks to complete the installation of the project for this independent Danish full infrastructure solution and backbone operator in just eight weeks.

"We've been impressed with Lucent's and Cygate's speed of delivery and flexibility and their support as we took this important strategic step forward for our operations in Denmark," said butlerNetworks CEO Henrik Vestergaard. "We are now capable of offering a complete and fully independent network solution to our customers and partners nationwide based on our own end-to-end infrastructure. And because this network is based on some of the most advanced SDH equipment available today, we are confident that we will remain highly competitive with this network moving forward."

The network is based on Lucent's newest MultiService 2.5 and 10Gigabit/s SDH product, the Metropolis ADM MultiService Mux. The network began carrying live traffic at the beginning of April and is one of the first live deployments of this product in Europe. The eight-week turnaround from design to implementation demonstrates how Lucent and its Business Partner Cygate worked closely with butlerNetworks to meet the very strict service dates.

Metropolis ADM serves as an integrated Ethernet over SDH metro access multiplexer, enabling solution providers like butlerNetworks to migrate from existing time-division multiplexed (TDM) networks to data-aware packet networks. The product offers two types of shelves on a single, compact platform that is both flexible and scalable, and it can be configured for use in both the metro core and metro access spaces. The system is used in conjunction with the Lucent Technologies TransLANcard, which provides alternative multiplexing techniques for bandwidth-efficient transport of data traffic over SDH. For more information: http://www.lucent.com/adm.

"This project represents the first significant order we've delivered and helped deploy in record time based on our new partnership with Lucent Technologies. It is proof that our strategy and timing of entering the telecommunications market in Denmark was correct, as we continue to see significant opportunities based on the leading edge technology from Lucent," said Jan Bender, CEO, Cygate. "Together with ButlerNetworks, Cygate foresees significant potential in the new and innovative services that can be offered from a network like this to the Danish small and medium sized enterprises."