Deutsche Telekom Global Network to use Lucent Technologies optical equipment

Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) will supply Deutsche Telekom with optical transmission systems for its Telekom Global Net optical backbone network under the terms of a multi-year contract. The terms of the contract were not disclosed.

Deutsche Telekom is investing in the Telekom Global Net project as part of its strategy of offering a seamless global service to its customers. With Lucent Technologies' optical systems, the new network will enable Deutsche Telekom to enable multinational companies to make direct use of global products and service packages.

In Europe, Telekom Global Net will extend from Germany to Austria, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Eastern European countries. A synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) network is also being built in the United States and Canada.

Lucent is supplying Deutsche Telekom with the Lucent WaveStar OLS 400G and WaveStar ADM 16/1 transmission systems among other items. The WaveStar OLS 400G is a dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) system that makes it possible to transmit information at speeds of up to 400 gigabits per second (Gb/s) using up to 80 wavelengths -- or colors -- of light over individual optical fibres, each no thicker than a hair.

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 equivalent of transmitting a 500,000 one-page e-mails each second. The SDH add/drop multiplexers that are being supplied are modular systems that use time division multiplex (TDM) technology developed by Lucent in its Bell Labs Research Centre in Nuremberg.

About Lucent Technologies:

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs and delivers systems, software, silicon and services for next-generation communications networks for service providers and enterprises. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit www.lucent.com. For more information about Lucent's Optical Networking Group, visit www.lucent-optical.com.