signed an exclusive and far reaching Global Master Purchasing Agreement (GMPA) to
supply broadband switching products and services to the Deutsche Telekom Group, Europe's
largest telecommunications company. The agreement, which covers all of Deutsche
Telekom's operations, including their international subsidiaries and affiliates
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Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP) to expand its national ATM data network
backbone in Germany.
The Alcatel 7670 RSP will allow Deutsche Telekom to scale existing multiservice networks
from 12.8 Gb/s platform to 450 Gb/s to meet the demands placed on the core by consolidation
of the different ATM-platforms. The contract also includes the industry-leading Alcatel 5620
Network Manager (NM) which will allow Deutsche Telekom to seamlessly integrate the new
backbone network into their existing ATM edge/access network, and provide advanced
functionality including ease of configuration, performance management, accounting,
reporting and network security. With the 5620 NM, Deutsche Telekom AG customers will also
be able to self-manage their Virtual Private Networks (VPN), allowing the operator to
deliver-profitable services while reducing operational expenditures.
"Deutsche Telekom's ability to consistently manage change and stay ahead of the technology
curve has made them one of the world's largest and most advanced telecommunications
service providers," said Alf-Henryk Wulf, Alcatel's global account director, Germany. "Alcatel
will continue to work closely with Deutsche Telekom AG to support their network and their
business."
Deutsche Telekom Selects Alcatel as Supplier of Choice
Global Master Purchase Agreement inaugurated with National Core Data Network
contract with Germany's largest operator
Paris, October 15, 2001 - Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA) today announced that it
has signed an exclusive and far reaching Global Master Purchasing Agreement (GMPA) to
supply broadband switching products and services to the Deutsche Telekom Group, Europe's
largest telecommunications company. The agreement, which covers all of Deutsche
Telekom's operations, including their international subsidiaries and affiliates, demonstrates the
carrier's ongoing commitment to the peerless carrier class reliability, quality of service and
ease of provisioning offered by Alcatel's asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology. As a
result of the GMPA, Alcatel today also announced that Deutsche Telekom has selected the
Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP) to expand its national ATM data network
backbone in Germany.
The Alcatel 7670 RSP will allow Deutsche Telekom to scale existing multiservice networks
from 12.8 Gb/s platform to 450 Gb/s to meet the demands placed on the core by consolidation
of the different ATM-platforms. The contract also includes the industry-leading Alcatel 5620
Network Manager (NM) which will allow Deutsche Telekom to seamlessly integrate the new
backbone network into their existing ATM edge/access network, and provide advanced
functionality including ease of configuration, performance management, accounting,
reporting and network security. With the 5620 NM, Deutsche Telekom AG customers will also
be able to self-manage their Virtual Private Networks (VPN), allowing the operator to
deliver-profitable services while reducing operational expenditures.
"Deutsche Telekom's ability to consistently manage change and stay ahead of the technology
curve has made them one of the world's largest and most advanced telecommunications
service providers," said Alf-Henryk Wulf, Alcatel's global account director, Germany. "Alcatel
will continue to work closely with Deutsche Telekom AG to support their network and their
business."
The 7670 RSP provides the high scalability and port density requirements needed to meet the
ever expanding DSL and customer premise bandwidth requirements of operators. The Alcatel
7670 RSP grants service provider requirements for high performance, and carrier-class
reliability with the capability to perform MPLS-enabled ATM core switching.
The GMPA, which also includes the Alcatel 7470 Multiservice Platform, Alcatel 7270
Multiservice Concentrator and Alcatel's MainStreet 3600+, follows Deutsche Telekom's
recently announced contract with Alcatel to deliver SDH and WDM systems for the rapid
expansion of its transmission network in Germany.
About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is Europe's largest communications company and one of the largest
communications carriers worldwide based on 2000 revenues of 40.9 billion euros ($38.6
billion). Through T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom's mobile telephony subsidiary, and through
other subsidiaries and investments, Deutsche Telekom serves more than 58 million mobile
telephony customers worldwide as of June 30, 2001. Deutsche Telekom offers its customers a
complete range of fixed-line voice telephony products and services through more than 50
million access lines. Deutsche Telekom is a leading provider of high-speed digital access lines
with more than 1.2 million (August 31, 2001) asymmetric digital subscriber line (T-DSL)
services currently sold and 19.3 million channels using the information transfer standard ISDN
(Integrated Services Digital Network) as of June 30, 2001. In online services, T-Online is
Europe's largest Internet provider with approximately 9.2 million subscribers. In January 2001,
Deutsche Telekom launched T-Systems, Europe's second-largest provider of comprehensive IT
and telecommunications services to business customers in more than 20 countries. For more
information about Deutsche Telekom, visit: telekom.de
About Alcatel
Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data
networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and consumers
worldwide. With sales of EURO 31 billion in 2000 and 110,000 employees, Alcatel operates in
more than 130 countries.
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