Lucent Technologies to Build New High Speed Fibre Optic Network for Germany's Deutsche Telekom
Three Year Contract Worth Several Hundred Million Dollars; Network Will Link Major Industrial Centres in Germany
Updated 5:15 AM ET February 24, 2000
HANNOVER, Germany, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- CeBIT 2000, Hall 16,Stand B06/B08 -- Deutsche Telekom announced today it has selected Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) to supply a leading-edge optical meet its business and residential customers' growing bandwidth demand for data applications. The total value of the three-year contract will be several hundred million Deutsche marks
(US$1=DM1.95).
Deutsche Telekom's network will span the entire country. The first phase of the network build-out will be completed at the end of this month and the entire project will be completed in 2002.
"The deregulation of the German telecommunications market, technological progress and the explosive growth of the Internet have created big demand for more bandwidth," said Gerd Tenzer, board member of Deutsche Telekom. "Telekom plans to meet this and future demand by establishing a national high-performance glass fibre network linking major industrial locations."
In 2001, Deutsche Telekom will become one of the first service providers in the world to offer its
customers transmission rates of between 10 and 40 gigabits/s over optical networking systems.
Lucent's research and development arm, Bell Laboratories, developed the optical networking solution.
Sophisticated Lucent technology in the transport network.
In the first phase, the new transport network will operate at transmission rates of 2.5 and 10 Gb/s. The data transmission of 10 Gb/s (10 billion bits per second) is equivalent to 120,000 simultaneous telephone calls.
In 2001, Deutsche Telekom will expand the new network with Lucent's WaveStar(TM) OLS 400G -- the industry's first 80-channel dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) system.
With a maximum capacity of 400 Gb/s, the OLS 400G will provide Deutsche Telekom's network with the capacity to transmit five million simultaneous telephone calls across a single transmission channel or wavelength fibre. Deutsche Telekom will also deploy Lucent's SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy) transmission system developed by Lucent's Bell Labs research centre in Nuremberg.
Lucent will provide the end-to-end network integration and consulting services using its NetworkCare(SM) Professional Services portfolio, including planning, installation, integration and network management services.
Lucent will also supply a sophisticated operations management software solution, called OneVision(R)
Management Systems. This family of operations support systems integrates new network components into existing infrastructures, thus ensuring smooth network operation. OneVision provides manufacturer-independent network and service management software for transmission networks and
extends the framework structure to converged packet and circuit-switched networks.
Lucent is the project leader for the entire vendor-independent optical backbone network that is being
built together with Alcatel.
"Lucent is expanding very rapidly in Europe and in Germany in particular. The agreement with Deutsche Telekom allows us to offer one of the world's largest service providers a reliable high performance network with leading-edge technology," said Hans Huber, chairman of Lucent in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit its Web site at
lucent.com or lucent.de .
In the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, Lucent has approximately 17,000 employees, including 3,000 in Germany. Lucent's revenue for fiscal 1999 was US$38.3 billion.
Contact: Paula Horii, 908-582-5522, office, or 908-301-0344, home, or phorii@lucent.com, or Yvonne Diaz, +44-171-647-8036,
office, +44-7803-278-121, mobile, or ydiaz@lucent.com, or Rob Spaulding, +33-1-4128-7661, office, +33-6-7064-7377, mobile, or
robspaulding@lucent.com
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