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ALCATEL: ADSL -- Alcatel exclusive supplier of France Telecom in 1999 for high-speed Internet
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1999 7:32 AM
- M2 Communications
AUG 26, 1999, M2 Communications - Paris -- France Telecom has chosen Alcatel's ADSL technology
for the deployment of access networks allowing residential subscribers and business users high speed
Internet access as well as digital asymmetric leased lines. After several trials - in Noisy le Grand, Bourges,
Nice and Le Mans - Alcatel has been chosen as exclusive supplier for 1999.
Alcatel will supply, install and commission ADSL equipment. The service will be available in the first six
'arrondissements' or districts of Paris and three cities in the Paris area (Issy-les-Moulineaux,
Neuilly-sur-Seine and Vanves). The commercial launch of ADSL services is planned for November 1999
under the name "Wanadoo Netissimo". This service will then be progressively extended to other areas.
Alcatel will also supply to France Telecom its range of Speed TouchT ADSL modems.
The architecture of Alcatel's ADSL system will also enable Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to offer a
range of broadband services to their customers using France Telecom's infrastructure.
Martin de Prycker, President of Alcatel's Internet Access Division, stated: "France Telecom's decision to
choose Alcatel for the launch of ADSL in France is a real success for the Group. After the rapid
development of ADSL in the United States, this choice confirms the wide-spread adoption of this
technology for high speed Internet access, which will allow French Internet users to fully benefit from the
services available on the Internet. This contract with France Telecom, one of Europe's leading operators',
reinforces Alcatel's worldwide leadership position in this rapidly exploding market."
Additional information on Alcatel's ADSL technical specifications ADSL transforms an operator's existing
investment in a network of copper twisted pair lines into a multimedia broadband distribution system. The
Alcatel ADSL system can support high-speed data, while delivering simultaneous standard telephony
services. The bitrates achieved are 25 to 100 times faster than those offered by standard analog modems
(56 kbit/s). It is offered over the Multi-standard- compliant (T1.413, G.Lite, G.DMT ) Alcatel ASAM and
its advanced range of Alcatel Speed TouchT ADSL modems. An active contributor to the various
standards bodies creating ADSL industry standards, Alcatel continues to work to ensure mass-market
availability of high-speed Internet access based on a single, standardized ADSL technology. Operators and
service providers have the choice of offering a wide range of services to subscribers connected to a single
type of ADSL DSLAM, ranging from very high to medium bit-rates. With Alcatel's ADSL approach,
service providers can offer high-speed multimedia services to any user without the need for costly network
upgrades of customer premises equipment.
Alcatel, #1 supplier of ADSL systems worldwide, has delivered and installed its ADSL equipment to
Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, Pacific Bell and SouthWestern Bell (SBC) in the US, as well as to
Singapore Telecom, PT Telecom (Indonesia), Telia (Sweden), BT (UK), Belgacom (Belgium), Bell
Canada, Telefonica (Spain), Telecom Italia, Shanghai PTA and Guangdong PTA (China) and successfully
deployed ADSL networks in Denmark, Japan, Korea and Thailand. Its ADSL modems have been
integrated in some PCs from COMPAQ and Hewlett Packard.
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