Bell Atlantic adds data to network upgrades [ATM contract to be announced]
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News, July 1998
Having addressed the future configuration of its local access and
transport area infrastructure, Bell Atlantic (New York City) will
begin construction this month of a next-generation data
packet-switched network for its anticipated long-distance needs.
The network will be based on both Synchronous Optical Network
(sonet) and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) protocols to
support such services as virtual private networks, work-at-home,
and audio and video streaming over the World Wide Web.
The network also will be able to emulate a circuit-switched voice
network, which will set the stage for the regional Bell operating
company to offer a package of long-distance voice and data
services over the same network, should it receive the necessary
regulatory approval.
Bell Atlantic tapped Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) as the
first supplier for the network. A five-year, $200 million contract
calls for Lucent to provide sonet and wavelength-division
multiplexing equipment, its 5ess Digital Voice Switch, and its
OneVision advanced administration and operations support
system software. According to a Lucent source, the contract calls
for delivery of the PacketStar Access Concentrator 120, FT 2000
sonet equipment, and a suite of wavelength-division multiplexing
equipment from the company's WaveStar product line. The
composition of the WaveStar deliveries will be determined as Bell
Atlantic's network takes shape, the source says.
Bell Atlantic spokesperson Larry Plumb said that additional
vendors for the network would be announced shortly, some as
soon as this fall. Other pieces of the network still to be purchased
include ATM equipment [upcoming ASND contract?] and Internet protocol packet routers.
The initial network deployment will connect hubs in Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. Data routing hubs will
be extended over the next two years to serve such markets as
Providence, RI, and other New England cities; locations in upstate
New York such as Albany; and such mid-Atlantic locales as
Pittsburgh, PA; Richmond, VA; and Charleston, WV. Delivery of
services over the network could begin by the first of next year.
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