THREAD---Lucent Technologies Inc.
Dow Jones Newswires -- October 11, 1999
DJ Lucent, NTT Commun In Softswitch Devt, Mktg Pact
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--NTT Communicationware Corp. agreed to jointly develop and market Lucent Technologies Inc.'s (LU) Softswitch for carriers in Japan.
In a press release Monday, Lucent said the Softswitch is designed for Internet Protocol and asynchronous transfer mode networks, and was developed by Lucent's Bell Laboratories.
Lucent plans to deliver Softswitch to NTT as a development system in the fourth quarter.
In a separate release, Lucent said it is demonstrating new products at the Telecom '99 showcase in Geneva, highlighting its wireless networks, Unified Messenger for service providers, a new fibreless optical networking system, its transmission of 10 gigabits of data per second over 1.6 kilometers of LazrSpeed, and its Softswitch device.
Bell Laboratories said its test of transmitting 10 gigabits over 1.6 kilometers showed an error rate of less than one in 1 trillion.
The LazrSpeed is an end-to-end, 10-gigabit structured connectivity device, for which Lucent expects to take orders beginning in January.
-Sam Favate; Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-5400
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