Lucent Technologies provides optical networking equipment to Shanghai Telecom

Feb. 27, 2001
Feb. 27, 2001--Lucent Technologies announced it has signed a $20 million contract with Shanghai Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom, China's biggest telecommunications service provider, to provide optical products that will triple the company's local network transmission capacity.

Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) announced it has signed a $20 million contract with Shanghai Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom, China's biggest telecommunications service provider, to provide optical products that will triple the company's local network transmission capacity. The products also will allow Shanghai Telecom to offer new bandwidth-intensive data services to its customers.

Under the terms of the contract, Shanghai Telecom will deploy eight sets of the Lucent WaveStar BandWidth Manager, WaveStar DACS and WaveStar ADM 16/1 to expand the city's backbone network. This is the first time the Lucent WaveStar BandWidth Manager will be deployed in China. Delivery of the equipment began in December 2000.

The WaveStar BandWidth Manager acts like an optical traffic cop, integrating all access and interoffice transport facilities into a single network element and dramatically simplifying the way operators route voice, data and video traffic from a central office. The system also helps carriers protect their investment by providing a scalable platform to easily respond to demands for network growth.

The WaveStar ADM 16/1 is an optical multiplexer that enables carriers to use synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) technology to set up optical network rings. The system does this by combining multiple low-speed electrical and optical inputs into a single 2.5 gigabits-per-second (Gb/s) signal. The WaveStar DACS is a large-capacity SDH digital access and cross-connect system that provides flexible bandwidth management in an SDH environment.

About Lucent Technologies:

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, designs and delivers systems, software, silicon and services for next-generation communications networks for service providers and enterprises. For more information, visit www.lucent.com.

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