Deutsche Telekom Selects Alcatel as Supplier of Choice; Global Master Purchase Agreement Inaugurated With National Core Data Network Contract With Germany's Largest Operator.Business Editors PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2001 Alcatel (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ALA) today announced it has signed an exclusive and far reaching Global Master Purchasing Agreement (GMPA GMPA General Materiel and Petroleum Activity GMPA Groupement Militaire de Prévoyance des Armées (France) GMPA General Material and Petroleum Activity (less common) ) to supply broadband switching products and services to the Deutsche Telekom Group, Europe's largest telecommunications company. The agreement, which covers all of Deutsche Telekom's operations, including their international subsidiaries and affiliates, demonstrates the carrier's ongoing commitment to the peerless carrier class reliability, quality of service and ease of provisioning offered by Alcatel's asynchronous transfer mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. (ATM) technology. As a result of the GMPA, Alcatel today also announced that Deutsche Telekom has selected the Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP RSP right sacroposterior (position of the fetus). ) to expand its national ATM data network backbone in Germany. The Alcatel 7670 RSP will enable Deutsche Telekom to scale existing multiservice networks from 12.8 Gb/s platform to 450 Gb/s to meet the demands placed on the core network by consolidation of the different ATM-platforms. The contract also includes the industry-leading Alcatel 5620 Network Manager (NM) which will enable Deutsche Telekom to seamlessly integrate the new backbone network into its existing ATM edge/access network, and provide advanced functionality including ease of configuration, performance management, accounting, reporting and network security. With the 5620 NM, Deutsche Telekom AG customers will also be able to self-manage their Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), allowing the operator to deliver profitable services while reducing operational expenditures. "Deutsche Telekom's ability to consistently manage change and stay ahead of the technology curve has made them one of the world's largest and most advanced telecommunications service providers," said Alf-Henryk Wulf, Alcatel's global account director, Germany. The 7670 RSP provides the high scalability and port density requirements needed to meet the ever expanding 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 and customer premise bandwidth requirements of operators. The Alcatel 7670 RSP grants service provider requirements for high performance, and carrier-class reliability with the capability to perform MPLS-enabled ATM core switching. The GMPA, which also includes the Alcatel 7470 Multiservice Platform, Alcatel 7270 Multiservice Concentrator and Alcatel's MainStreet 3600+, follows Deutsche Telekom's recently announced contract with Alcatel to deliver SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy and WDM (1) (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) A technology that uses multiple lasers and transmits several wavelengths of light (lambdas) simultaneously over a single optical fiber. systems for the rapid expansion of its transmission network in Germany. About Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom is Europe's largest communications company and one of the largest communications carriers worldwide based on 2000 revenues of Euro 40.9 billion ($38.6 billion). Through T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom's mobile telephony subsidiary, and through other subsidiaries and investments, Deutsche Telekom serves more than 58 million mobile telephony customers worldwide as of June 30, 2001. 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 1.2 million (August 31, 2001) 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 19.3 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 June 30, 2001. In online services, T-Online is Europe's largest Internet provider with approximately 9.2 million subscribers. For more information about Deutsche Telekom, 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 sales of Euro 31 billion in 2000 and 110,000 employees, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, www.alcatel.com |
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