Czech Telecom Launches International Optical Network with Lucent Technologies Solutions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CeBIT 2003 Hall 27, A16 HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2003 Lucent Technologies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LU) Lucent 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 used to connect Czech Telecom's national network to data centres in neighbouring countries Czech Telecom today announced that it has started providing international telecommunications services to its business and service provider customers using dense wavelength division multiplexing See WDM. (DWDM) optical solutions from Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU). Czech Telecom and Lucent have constructed an international optical network, with access points in the Slovak Republic, Austria and Germany. Czech Telecom is using the state-of-the-art optical infrastructure technology to offer high-quality high-speed connections between locations in the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. and abroad, and also transit services to several countries. The technology will provide Czech Telecom's customers with network administration and operations services 24 hours a day, all year round. "By launching this transit network transit network - A network which passes traffic between other networks in addition to carrying traffic for its own hosts. It must have paths to at least two other networks. See also backbone, stub. Czech Telecom has become a truly international company, and the first national operator from the accession countries Accession countries is commonly used to refer to countries that have or will join the European Union ("EU"). Although the term should properly be used for countries that have yet to join the EU but whose date of accession has been finalized, the term came into common usage prior to to the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community to expand into foreign countries," said Pavel Jirousek, executive vice-president of Wholesale Services, Czech Telecom. "Thanks to high-quality network infrastructure, as well as the country's advantageous geographical location and business experience in a liberalised market, Czech Telecom is ideally positioned to act as a telecommunications services hub between Eastern and Western Europe." Lucent has been supplying Czech Telecom with state-of-the-art DWDM systems since October 2002. Czech Telecom is using the WaveStar(R) OLS OLS Ordinary Least Squares OLS Online Library System OLS Ottawa Linux Symposium OLS Operation Lifeline Sudan OLS Operational Linescan System OLS Online Service OLS Organizational Leadership and Supervision OLS On Line Support OLS Online System 1.6T system, an ultra-high-capacity DWDM system. The system offers up to 160 10-Gb/s wavelengths for a total capacity of 1.6 Tb/s on one fiber, and open architecture that enables it to operate in multi-vendor environments. Czech Telecom has also deployed the WaveStar(R) ADM See add/drop multiplexer. (language) ADM - A picture query language, extension of Sequel2. ["An Image-Oriented Database System", Y. Takao et al, in Database Techniques for Pictorial Applications, A. Blaser ed, pp. 527-538]. 16/1, Lucent's successful 2.5G SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy multiplexer, of which more than 25,000 systems has been sold globally, and the Metropolis(R) AM, a cost-effective Ethernet/SDH metro access multiplexer. "We are very proud that Czech Telecom are now able to provide international services over Lucent equipment," said Lubomir Bokstefl, general director, Lucent Technologies, Czech Republic. "Building the international network was a great challenge for us, opening up new possibilities in our future co-operation, and we are looking forward to working with Czech Telecom to support their future business opportunities." The companies completed the construction of points of presence in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, Vienna, Austria and Frankfurt, Germany in January 2003. The second phase will consist of constructing similar Points of presence in Budapest and Warsaw. About Czech Telecom CESKY TELECOM, a.s., continues to strive to improve the quality of its services. The firm implements system management that satisfies the requirements of internationally-recognised ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000:2000 norms, earning it certification from Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Limited. Certificates have already been issued for the Service Wholesale Division, the Imaginet Division, for Corporate Client Services in the Telecommunications Services Division, as well as Purchasing and Logistics. With nearly four million telephone lines in operation, CESKY TELECOM, a.s., is the leading telecommunications company in the Czech Republic. Through its subsidiary company Eurotel Praha, spol. s r.o., it also has a significant presence in the Czech mobile services market. About Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, designs and delivers networks for the world's largest communications service providers. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent relies on its strengths in mobility, optical, data and voice networking technologies as well as software and services to develop next-generation networks. The company's systems, services and software are designed to help customers quickly deploy and better manage their networks and create new, revenue-generating services that help businesses and consumers. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at http://www.lucent.com. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion