Alcatel is Number one in Explosive Broadband Access Market for 1999, According to RHK
BusinessWire, Wednesday, November 17, 1999 at 12:52
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 1999--
Alcatel's Litespan(R) New World Digital Loop Carrier(TM) NGDLC
and ADSL DSLAMs top respective categories
Alcatel today announced it has further solidified its position as
the leading provider of broadband access technologies and services
needed to meet the skyrocketing demands for high-speed access to the
Internet and data services in addition to basic telephony service,
according to a new study by RHK (Ryan Hankin Kent).
The newly released figures from RHK, a leading telecommunications
market research and consulting firm that tracks the broadband
marketplace, indicated that Alcatel is the leader in supplying
integrated DSL infrastructure in the North American marketplace.
According to the RHK study, Alcatel's Litespan(R) New World Digital
Loop Carrier(TM) holds a leadership 34 percent share in the $2.3
billion next-generation digital loop carrier (NGDLC) market, which is
significantly ahead of its competitors. Alcatel's ADSL DSLAM (Digital
Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) also commands a 51 percent
leadership share of the DSL market, with no other vendor commanding
more than 16 percent share.
Alcatel's dominance of the NGDLC market affirms the status of its
flagship Litespan system as the broadband access platform of choice
for leading local carriers, which are using Litespan as a
cost-effective platform to drive fiber optics more deeply into their
service areas and neighborhoods while simultaneously offering
integrated ADSL capabilities. Litespan will be a key building block in
SBC's recently announced $6.0 billion dollar initiative, Project
Pronto. Litespan is now being deployed by every RBOC in the U.S.
"Our study shows that Alcatel is the number one player in the
growing broadband access market," said Catherine Cook, Access Analyst
for RHK. "2000 will be the year of mass deployment of DSL," according
to Claude Romans, Director, Access Networks for RHK. "1999 has been
the year of widespread infrastructure buildout, and we expect the
buildout to continue in 2000. ADSL will be deployed from NGDLC
platforms for the first time in 2000. Alcatel is positioned to deliver
ADSL from both DSLAM and NGDLC platforms."
"The RHK numbers confirm what we are seeing in the marketplace --
that broadband access is where the action is," said Krish Prabhu, CEO
of Alcatel USA and COO of Alcatel Telecom. "As DSL achieves critical
mass, we are on pace to deploy more than 1.3 million lines of DSL by
year end. With the unprecedented success of our ADSL DSLAMs and the
rapidly growing footprint of Litespan, we are well positioned to
provide our customers with a ubiquitous broadband access solution."
Alcatel's Litespan New World Digital Loop Carrier has become the
multiservice access platform of choice for leading U.S.
telecommunications carriers as they upgrade their extensive networks
to support high-speed, always-on ADSL Internet access as well as other
advanced digitally-delivered services such as voice over DSL, in
addition to basic POTS service.
The Alcatel Litespan family of digital loop carriers is a
high-capacity multiservice broadband platform that allows service
providers to digitally provision voice, data, Internet and transport
services incrementally as user demand grows. Litespan supports
traditional narrowband telephony (traditional voice service),
broadband services such as ADSL, as well as wide variety of network
interfaces, including narrowband, wideband and broadband. As a
next-generation digital loop carrier (NGDLC), Litespan can receive and
aggregate large amounts of bandwidth outside the central office with
basic copper distribution, multiple fiber-fed remote terminals,
fiber-to-the-node, fiber-to-the-curb, and home or business.
Litespan's packet-based architecture supports ADSL service as the
foundation for the all-digital loop. A Litespan node also acts as the
aggregation point for multiple remote DLC terminals and DSLAMs
(digital subscriber lines access multiplexers) while insuring the
quality of service demands of DSL.
All voice and data services are managed by Alcatel's single
access domain management platform, Access Management System (AMS). AMS
manages both ADSL DSLAMs and Litespan network elements under a single
umbrella. AMS is designed to maximize operational savings while
accelerating the deployment of new service with flow-through service
provisioning that manages all the new local packet services in
addition to providing the interfaces to the legacy operation support
systems.
Alcatel's ADSL Expertise
Alcatel's xDSL solutions are fully scalable and are available on
a variety of service platforms, including line cards for the Alcatel
Litespan New World Digital Loop Carrier; Alcatel 1000, a high-density
central office Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM); and
a compact, environmentally hardened mini-DSLAM packages used for
low-density subscriber DLC situations. Alcatel's ADSL technology is
also offered in an advanced range of Alcatel Speed Touch(TM) ADSL CPE
modems. All Alcatel xDSL service platforms are fully NEBS (Level 3)
compliant and integrate seamlessly into service provider networks. The
ADSL DSLAM's recently introduced multi-mode hardware protects the
service provider's investment in DSL infrastructure by supporting both
G.lite and full-rate splitterless ADSL on the same line card.
Alcatel ADSL equipment is being actively deployed by Bell
Atlantic, SBC (Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell, and Ameritech), and
BellSouth. Outside the United States, Alcatel has delivered ADSL
equipment to Telekom Austria, Telia in Sweden, BT in the UK, Belgacom
in Belgium, Telefonica in Spain, France Telecom, Telecom Italia,
Singapore Telecom, and PT Telecom of Indonesia. ADSL networks have
also been implemented in Canada, China, Korea, and Thailand.
Alcatel builds next generation networks, delivering integrated
end-to-end voice and data solutions to established and new carriers,
as well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 120,000 employees
and sales of EURO 21.3 billion ($25.0 billion), Alcatel operates in
more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on
Internet: http:/www.alcatel.com
CONTACT: Press relations - US
Mark Burnworth
Tel: 972-519-5168
Mark.A.Burnworth@usa.alcatel.com
Industry Analyst Relations
Katie Hammler
Tel: 703-724-2249
katie.s.hammler@usa.alcatel.com
Press relations
Willem Zevenbergen
Willem.zevenbergen@alcatel.com
Tel: +33-1-40-76-11-38
Investor relations
Claire Pedini
Claire.pedini@alcatel.fr
Tel: +33-1-4076-1393
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