COLT Selects Alcatel for Business Broadband in Spain; Symmetric and Voice Over DSL Services Expand into Country's Largest Cities.Business and Technology Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2002 COLT Telecom Spain, a subsidiary of COLT Telecom, the UK-headquartered pan-European provider of business telecommunications services, announced it has awarded Alcatel (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ALA) a contract to supply digital subscriber line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (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 ) equipment for a high-speed network linking Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. Targeting branch and remote offices of large companies, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises in the three cities The Three Cities is a collective description of the three fortified cities of Cospicua, Vittoriosa, and Senglea on the Island of Malta, which are enclosed by the massive line of fortification created by the Knights of St John, the Cottonera Lines. , the network will deliver symmetric DSL-based business services and voice over DSL (VoDSL). COLT has selected Alcatel's voice over DSL solution, based on the Alcatel 7310 Loop Voice Gateway (LVG LVG Leaving LVG London Vampyre Group (UK) LVG Lastvogn (Danish: truck) ). The LVG allows up to 16 additional voice lines to be deployed over the same copper connection, delivering significant savings to enterprises and new revenues with minimal incremental investment by service providers. The Alcatel 7310 LVG solution is unique in the industry for its ability to be deployed either as a standalone VoDSL solution or as an upgrade in each 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 ). Supply and maintenance of the Alcatel 7300 ASAM, the world's most widely deployed broadband access platform, is also included in the agreement. COLT's central office traffic is aggregated and transported across the wide area network using multi-protocol core and multiservice edge equipment based on the industry-leading Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform and the Alcatel 7470 Multiservice Platform. The Alcatel 5620 Network Manager provides seamless network management across access, edge and core devices to improve provisioning efficiency and customer service. "Alcatel's leadership in broadband access and its significant presence in Spain were key factors in our selection," said Angel Rojo, director general of COLT Telecom in Spain. "Alcatel is able to deliver not only broadband, but the entire support network that ensures DSL is profitable for COLT and attractive to our business customers." In late 2001, Alcatel announced a similar business broadband deployment with COLT France, servicing thousands of small and medium sized enterprises. 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 and 99,000 employees, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, www.alcatel.com About COLT Telecom COLT Telecom is a telecommunication and Internet operator for business, present in Spain since 1998. COLT provides advanced telephony, broadband, Virtual Private Networks (VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. ) and Internet services with guaranteed quality of service thanks to its own 100 percent fiber optic network within the business centers in the cities where it operates. Today, COLT has more than 350 km of metropolitan networks around Spain and is present in 32 European cities. In Spain, COLT has also two Internet Solutions Centers (Madrid and Barcelona), the first of their kind in the country to offer advanced services of applications web hosting and electronic mail solutions. COLT also builds and operates a long-haul network in Europe that will reach a length of 15,000 km. COLT Telecom is listed on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. (CTM CTM Continuum (gaming) CTM Community Trade Mark (Europe) CTM Cisco Transport Manager CTM Confederacion de Trabajadores de Mexico (Spanish: Confederation of Mexican Workers) .L) and the NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on (COLT). www.colt-telecom.es |
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