Lucent Technologies Fiber Optic Cable Co. Ltd., Beijing (BFOC) has signed fiber optic cable contracts with Xinjiang Mobile, Xinjiang PTA, and Qingdao PTB with a combined worth of $28 million.
Under the contract in Xinjiang, BFOC will provide 2500km TrueWave RS fiber optic cable for Xinjiang's provincial long haul backbone network. The project starts installation this month and the fiber network is expected to be operational in October 2001. Xinjiang Mobile will be installing Lucent fiber into its wireless network. Xinjiang Mobile's need for fiber optic cable is due to the fact that the growth of wireless technology also drives the growth of fiber cable used to connect wireless cell sites and land based networks. Fiber cable helps provide large call capacity for cell sites to meet the rapid growth in cellular phones.
Lucent's claims that its TrueWave RS single-mode optical fiber being installed in Xinjiang was the industry's first nonzero-dispersion fiber (NZDF) optimized for long distance communications service. TrueWave RS was developed by Lucent's Bell Labs to meet long-distance service providers' fast growing demands for increased bandwidth. TrueWave is fully capable of supporting optical transmission technologies, particularly in the application of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), a capability which dramatically increases capacity through the simultaneous transmission of different wavelengths (colors) of light.
Under the contract with Qingdao PTB, BFOC will provide more than 100,000km of AllWave optical fiber to enhance Qingdao PTB's broadband metro network services. The Qingdao PTB project is expected to be operational for public service this July. Lucent's AllWave single-mode optical fiber is designed for use across the entire wavelength spectrum. AllWave fiber also provides an additional 50 percent capacity as a result of a breakthrough patented manufacturing process that eliminates spectrum-blocking water in the 1400 nm range trapped in most optical fibers during manufacturing. AllWave can also handle simultaneous video, data and voice traffic on a single fiber in both digital and analog formats.
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