Deutsche Telekom Expands its Network with 1.2 Million Kilometers of Alcatel Optical Fiber.Business Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2001 Alcatel (Paris: CGEP CGEP Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (Virginia) CGEP Center for Gifted Education Policy .PA and NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ALA), a world leader in intelligent optical networking, today announced a major three-year deal with Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT), the leading German telecommunications operator. Alcatel will supply Deutsche Telekom with 1.2 million kilometers of cabled optical fiber through 2003, with the first deliveries starting in the middle of this year. Deutsche Telekom has been a major customer of Alcatel's solutions for a number of years. Deutsche Telekom will deploy Alcatel's single-mode optical fiber In fiber-optic communication, a single-mode optical fiber (SMF) is an optical fiber designed to carry only a single ray of light (mode). This ray of light often contains a variety of different wavelengths. cables as part of the company's ongoing plans to upgrade and expand its optical networking capabilities. This deal further extends Alcatel optical solutions throughout Deutsche Telekom's operations. The project will use optical cables with 8 to 196 individual standard single-mode fibers (SSMF SSMF Standard Single Mode Fiber (Corning) SSMF Sewanee Summer Music Festival (Sewanee, TN) SSMF Space Station Millimeter Facility SSMF Space Station Microwave Facility ), currently the most commonly used type of optical fiber. Alcatel's SSMF ensure high performance by keeping both attenuation Loss of signal power in a transmission. Attenuation The reduction in level of a transmitted quantity as a function of a parameter, usually distance. It is applied mainly to acoustic or electromagnetic waves and is expressed as the ratio of power densities. and dispersion extremely low, optimizing its operation in terms of distance and capacity for a wide range of applications, including multimedia, interactive television and teleshopping. "Our ability to provide the most advanced solutions has put us in a strong position with Deutsche Telekom," said Jacques Blanc, president of Alcatel's optical fiber activities. "Just as with other Alcatel solutions, our innovative processes and ability to understand customer needs allow Alcatel to provide a cost effective optical fiber solution that ensures the highest in performance and reliability." Alcatel has a complete portfolio of optical fiber solutions including SSMF, Multimode fiber and its advanced Non Zero-Dispersion Shifted Fibers (NZ-DSF NZ-DSF Non-Zero-Dispersion Shifted Fiber (Fujitsu) ), TeraLight Metro and TeraLight Ultra. These two products are based on Alcatel's proven TeraLight technology, which has set many transmission capacity records, including the latest for 10.2 Tbit/s transmission at 40 Gb/s. About Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom is Europe's largest communications company and one of the largest communications carriers worldwide based on 2000 revenues of 40.9 billion euros ($38.6 billion). Through T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom's mobile telephony subsidiary, and through other subsidiaries and investments, Deutsche Telekom serves more than 46 million mobile telephony customers worldwide. Deutsche Telekom offers its customers a complete range of fixed-line voice telephony products and services through more than 50 million access lines. Deutsche Telekom is a leading provider of high-speed digital access lines with more than 900,000 new asymmetric digital subscriber line (communications, protocol) Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - (ADSL, or Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop) A form of Digital Subscriber Line in which the bandwidth available for downstream connection is significantly larger then for upstream. (T-DSL T-DSL Telekom-Digital Subscriber Line (Deutsche Telekom) ) services currently sold and 18.6 million channels using the information transfer standard ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. (Integrated Services Digital Network Integrated services digital network (ISDN) A generic term referring to the integration of communications services transported over digital facilities such as wire pairs, coaxial cables, optical fibers, microwave radio, and satellites. ) as of March 31, 2001. In online services, T-Online is Europe's largest Internet provider with approximately 8.7 million subscribers. In January 2001, Deutsche Telekom launched T-Systems, Europe's second-largest provider of comprehensive IT and telecommunications services to business customers in more than 20 countries. For more information about Deutsche Telekom, visit www.telekom.de/international. About Alcatel Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 110,000 employees and sales of EURO 31 billion in 2000, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, http://www.alcatel.com |
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