Bell Atlantic has completed a vendor selection for Metro-DWDM!
Not sure, who is the vendor. Anybody knows?
This is what I found at ZDNet:
zdnet.com
Catch The Metro Line
By Carol Wilson
Metropolitan versions of the Dense Wave Division
Multiplexing technology that long-distance companies
use are now coming onto the market in a big way.
While only one local phone company, Bell Atlantic
Corp., has completed a vendor selection process that
includes metro Dense Wave Division Multiplexing
(DWDM) networks, every other major local company is
out scouting for vendors now and finding more
choices than ever before.
Cambrian Systems Corp., Ciena Corp. and Lucent
Technologies Inc. announced metro systems at the end
of 1997 and are expected to have them running live
at Supercomm this week. Fujitsu Network
Communications is joining that field with a
Flashwave Metro product at Supercomm '98.
Technology advances have enabled vendors to scale
back the systems provided to long-distance companies
and made prices more reasonable, says BellSouth
Corp.'s John Spencer, manager of transport
engineering
systems. At the same time, the volumes in which
long-distance companies have snapped up DWDM
equipment are also helping lower the cost for
metropolitan network applications. The result: Metro
systems, only rumored a year ago on the Supercomm
show floor, are reality today. |
