From SBC - gee I wonder if PMC supplies any of these suppliers? :-)
Last week, SBC announced a $6 billion initiative - "Project Pronto" -
that will make broadband services available to 80 percent of its
customers over the next three years and accelerate the convergence of
its voice and data backbone systems into a next-generation, packet-
switched platform. SBC will achieve these goals by pushing fiber and
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) equipment deeper into the neighborhoods it
serves, and deploying the industry's most advanced packet-switching
technology - voice trunking over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) - to
create a highly efficient and integrated voice, data and video backbone
network. The new network structure is expected to generate $1.5 billion
in annual expense and capital savings by the year 2004.
To implement Project Pronto, SBC will work with six primary suppliers:
Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc., Alcatel, Lucent Technologies,
Newbridge Networks, Inc., Nortel Networks, and Siecor. |
