Lucent Technologies to Expand Dacom's Backbone Network.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SEOUL, Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2003 Metropolis(R) EON eon Long span of geologic time. In formal usage, eons are the longest portions of geologic time (eras are the second-longest). Three eons are recognized: the Phanerozoic Eon (dating from the present back to the beginning of the Cambrian Period), the Proterozoic Eon, and the will enable Dacom to build out storage area network for Korea's Supreme Court Lucent Technologies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : LU) today announced that it has signed a contract with Dacom, one of South Korea's leading wireline and broadband service providers, to supply optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. systems to expand its dense wavelength division multiplexing See WDM. (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 ) backbone network A backbone network provides a path for the exchange of information between different LANs or subnetworks.[1] A backbone can tie together diverse networks in the same building, in different buildings in a campus environment, or over wide areas. and also to build out a storage DWDM network for its enterprise customer, Korea's Supreme Court. Under the contract, Lucent will deliver and deploy the Metropolis(R) Enhanced Optical Networking (EON), a DWDM metro optical system designed to eliminate bottlenecks in metropolitan networks caused by increasing data traffic needs of customers. The systems will be used in three metropolitan areas of Seoul, Inchon and Daejeon as well as major cities in Gangwon province. This ring-based optical networking solution allows Dacom to expand the bandwidth of its existing network and cost effectively deliver new revenue-generating high-speed services such as gigabit ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. and interoperable storage solutions to its customers. This contract marks the first time that Metropolis(R) EON is being used as a storage networking application in Korea. Metropolis(R) EON will allow Dacom to provide its key customer, the Supreme Court, with business continuity in the wake of a disaster along with other storage networking wavelength services. "The number one priority for enterprise customers is network reliability. Lucent's proven optical networking technology will help us meet the expectation on premium-level services from enterprise customers like the Supreme Court," said Hee-jae Lee, vice president of Transmission Network Unit, Dacom. "Reliable storage networks expanded by these new systems will make our networking environment even more efficient and flexible." "We constantly look for better ways to serve our customers' needs and this new application of Metropolis(R) EON for Dacom's storage network demonstrates our efforts," said John Yang John Yang (born 1933) is a photographer and architect originally from Suchow, China. His father was a doctor; his grandfather, a Shanghai businessman. His family emigrated to England in 1937, and then to the United States in 1939. Yang grew up in New York City. , president of Lucent Technologies Korea. "We will continue to provide advanced technology and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. to help Dacom expand its existing network and generate value-added services." Developed with the help of scientists at Bell Labs, Lucent's R&D arm, the Metropolis(R) EON is a 32-channel DWDM system that increases network capacity by transmitting multiple wavelengths or colors of light across a single fiber strand with each wavelength carrying a distinct stream of information. DWDM technology was pioneered by Bell Labs scientists and it enables the huge bandwidth of today's state-of-the-art optical networks. The Metropolis(R) EON system supports a wide range of transmission rates from 16 megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps. (Mb/s) to 10 gigabits per second (Gb/s). Its ring architecture also offers improved service reliability and provides business continuity services for backups and disaster recovery by having multiple data centers online and synchronized. For more information: http://www.lucent.com/eon. About DACOM Established in 1982, Dacom has provided domestic long-distance call, international call and digital leased lines service for business and residential customers. Dacom runs nationwide communications Nationwide Communications Inc. was a media subsidiary of the Nationwide Insurance Company, which operated from 1946 until 1997. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Nationwide Communications owned and operated a variety of radio and television stations across the United States until it sold network for both voice and data services such as Boranet, Chollian and Webhard. For more information on Dacom, visit its Web site at www.dacom.co.kr 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 www.lucent.com. |
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