Malaysia's Fiberail expands with Alcatel-Lucent's optical equipment

JULY 3, 2008 -- Fiberail Sdn Bhd, Malaysia's leading fiber-optic network operator, and Alcatel-Lucent (search for Alcatel-Lucent) today announced the expansion of Fiberail's existing network. Based on Alcatel-Lucent's optical technology, the network will provide Fiberail with enhanced capacity, flexibility, and scalability to address the bandwidth needs of its diversified customer base, including managed network service providers, global operators, discounted voice operators, broadcasting operators, and financial sectors, say Fiberail representatives. Alcatel-Lucent is also providing deployment and maintenance as part of the expanded contract.

According to Alcatel-Lucent, its optical equipment enables Fiberail to extend its network along the railway corridor in both the western and eastern part of the Malaysian peninsula, as well as along the gas pipeline corridor on the east coast. By increasing the network's capacity to carry voice, data, and video traffic over a single platform, Alcatel-Lucent's equipment helps Fiberail cost-effectively address customer demand for advanced business applications such as Ethernet-based services, as well as popular residential applications such as triple play.

"This is a breakthrough for Alcatel-Lucent, as it marks the beginning of an exciting business relationship with Fiberail," notes Frederic Rose, president of Alcatel-Lucent's activities for Europe, Asia, and Africa. "Our market-leading optical solutions will help Fiberail achieve the network flexibility and scalability it needs to support existing and future service demands."

This new project is based on Alcatel-Lucent's 1626 Light Manager and 1696 Metrospan, managed by the 1350 network management system.

Visit Alcatel-Lucent