Re: SBC's Project Pronto Vendors
Thread,
Well here's the all important list of vendors who get a bite of the $2 billion/year (x3=$6 billion) SBC is spending for Project Pronto. And the winners are:
Advanced Fiber (sym: AFCI)
Alcatel (sym: ALA)
Lucent (sym: LU)
Newbridge Networks (sym: NN)
Nortel Networks (sym: NT)
Siecor (sym: I never followed them?)
MikeM(From Florida)
PS I picked up this news from the AFCI thread via Andre Daedone.
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SBC to Use World-Class Suppliers to Help Build It's Next-Generation Broadband Network
SAN ANTONIO----Nov. 3, 1999-- Company selects industry-leading manufacturers to implement "Project Pronto" - a $6 billion initiative to accelerate network convergence and transform SBC into America's largest single broadband provider SBC announced today the initial primary suppliers it will work with to create a vast, sophisticated next-generation broadband network.
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. "These suppliers share our commitment and vision to making our next-generation network a reality and making broadband readily available to all customers," said Steve Welch, SBC's President - Corporate and Administration Services. "These industry leaders will give us the state-of-the-art equipment and capabilities to create a network that is among the most sophisticated, efficient, flexible and scalable in the industry. SBC has the confidence that these suppliers will not only deliver the best technology available, but will meet the time and volume demands of our three-year network build-out." Today, customers must reside within 3.5 miles of a central office to receive DSL service. Through Project Pronto, SBC will overcome this distance limitation by using advanced fiber optics and neighborhood broadband gateways containing next-generation digital loop carriers to push DSL capabilities now housed in central offices closer to customers. This will make DSL service available to approximately 80 percent of SBC customers.
The six initial primary suppliers will provide a range of state-of- the-art technologies that SBC plans to use to bring Project Pronto to life: As part of the project, SBC will continue to place DSL Access Multiplexers (DSLAM) into central offices and deploy neighborhood broadband gateways and fiber optic facilities throughout its territories, in both urban and rural areas. Additionally, ATM-based switching technology will be used to integrate SBC's voice and data backbone networks and transport voice traffic the same way it does data - via packets.
SBC's next-generation network will help transform SBC over the next three years into America's largest, single provider of advanced broadband services, making super-fast, always-on DSL access available to almost all of its customers and creating a platform to deliver next- generation, broadband-powered services.
SBC Communications Inc. is a global communications leader. Through its trusted brands - Southwestern Bell, Ameritech, Pacific Bell, SBC Telecom, Nevada Bell, SNET and Cellular One - and world-class network, SBC provides local and long-distance phone service, wireless and data communications, paging, high-speed Internet access and messaging, cable and satellite television, security services and telecommunications equipment, as well as directory advertising and publishing. In the United States, the company currently has 59 million access lines, 10.1 million wireless customers and is undertaking a national expansion program that will bring SBC service to an additional 30 markets. |
