The four contracts have been signed with the following operators:
T-Mobile Austria — to upgrade the existing transport network connecting Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, and Graz, and to support services with bandwidth of 10 GE and above on each colored optical connection. Christian Laqué, Vice President of Network at T-Mobile Austria, commented: “Alcatel-Lucent’s advanced optical technology will allow us to gradually transform our existing transport network to support the growing demand for mobile broadband services and lay the foundation for responding to future NGMN capacity requirements.”
T-Mobile Czech Republic — to increase network aggregation and transport capacity and improve service delivery efficiency. “With its innovative Zero Touch Photonics strategy, Alcatel-Lucent is meeting our requirements for a new approach that multiplies network capacity on demand and in a cost-effective manner,” added Ondrej Cibula, Vice President of Backbone Network at T-Mobile Czech Republic. “This solution facilitates a significant improvement in network performance and bandwidth provisioning, and creates a future-proof environment for the introduction of innovative mobile services.”
Slovak Telekom — to modernize the existing backbone network and enhance operational efficiency and service delivery through an automated provisioning system. Ralf Mittag, Director of Platform and Technology Production at Slovak Telekom, explained: “DWDM technology allows us to offer our customers on-demand bandwidth in a flexible manner and with significant cost savings. With Alcatel-Lucent’s Zero Touch Photonics strategy, we can upgrade network capacity directly from the Network Operations Center, without needing to physically replace any cards in the optical nodes.”
PTC Poland — to continue its network transformation and leverage increased aggregation and transport network capacity for high-bandwidth mobile applications in a multi-vendor network environment. “Alcatel-Lucent’s optical solution provides us with a seamless migration path to an aggregation and transport Ethernet network, while also allowing us to continue capitalizing on the cost and efficiency of IP/Ethernet as demand for higher bandwidth increases,” said Tomasz Gerszberg, Head of Transmission and Backbone at PTC Poland. “With this deployment, we will be ready for the next generation of mobile broadband services with a minimal cost per bit carried.”
Alcatel-Lucent will supply Deutsche Telekom's four subsidiaries with its 1626 Light Manager (LM) system. This platform addresses operators' requirements for high bandwidth expansion capacity and facilitates a fully tunable, reconfigurable optical push-pull multiplexer architecture. Leveraging Alcatel-Lucent's unique Zero Touch Photonics strategy, it enables operators to design, plan, and operate their networks with exceptional agility. This means operators can remotely provision end-to-end wavelength services in minutes, allowing them to deliver optimal bandwidth to their customers virtually on demand.
