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To: Liatris Spicata who wrote (4096)11/12/2004 12:00:48 PM
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SBC Sheds Light on 'Lightspeed'

SBC pulled back the covers today on its Project Lightspeed, an aggressive access network makeover that will consume about $4 billion in spending and is projected to reach 18 million households by 2007.

The planned IP network will use both FTTP (fiber to the premises) and FTTN (fiber to the node) technologies and, once activated, will provide customers downstream bandwidth of speeds up to 25 Mbit/s.

The Project Lightspeed network services will also include high-quality TV and voice services, with four streams of TV programming available to each customer, which is enough to offer HDTV and Internet access on the same IP network. Earlier, Alcatel was selected as one of the main suppliers and integrators in this effort (see Mais Alors! Alcatel Bags $1.7B SBC Deal ).

Lea Ann Champion, the senior executive VP in charge of SBC's IP operations and services group, insists that SBC's effort is not a "me too" network. "The FTTN deployment can be completed in one fourth the time required for an FTTP overbuild at about one fifth of the capital investment," she says.

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