Alcatel-Lucent lands core router deals with China Mobile, China Unicom
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is continuing its core router tour of China with the announcement that it will supply its 7950 XRS IP Core Router to China Mobile for the service provider's CMNET national IP backbone network as well as to China Unicom for deployment in nine Chinese cities. These two announcements follow an earlier reveal of a 7950 XRS deployment by China Telecom (see "China Telecom selects IP core and edge routers from Alcatel-Lucent").