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Global Crossing Begins Live Network Testing of Lucent's WaveStar(TM) LambdaRouter - The Industry's First High-Capacity, All-Optical Switch Trans-Atlantic Testing Between New York City and Whitesands, England, is Significant Milestone in Bringing All-Optical Switching to Commercial Networks by December MURRAY HILL, N.J., and HAMILTON, Bermuda, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Having completed successful lab testing, Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU - news) and Global Crossing Ltd. (Nasdaq: GBLX - news) today announced that the two companies have begun live network testing of Lucent's WaveStar(TM) LambdaRouter, the world's first high-capacity, all-optical switch. Global Crossing plans to turn up commercial service on this breakthrough technology by the end of the year. Lucent's LambdaRouter is a critical component of Global Crossing's next-generation, global optical network that soon will connect more than 200 cities on five continents. Maintaining all-optical traffic though the LambdaRouter will enable Global Crossing to offer new services to its customers including ``point-and-click wavelength provisioning,'' which will enable network providers to instantly redistribute wavelengths to areas of their networks that need additional bandwidth. ``Today, we are one step closer to the all-optical network,'' said Leo Hindery, Jr., chief executive officer, Global Crossing. ``Global Crossing is building the world's most extensive global, fiber-optic network that will provide nearly limitless bandwidth and seamless Internet connectivity for the world's top 200 markets. All-optical switches are critical to our plans, and Lucent's award-winning product is helping us realize this vision.'' Designed by Bell Labs, the WaveStar LambdaRouter uses a series of microscopic mirrors to instantly direct and route optical signals from fiber to fiber, without converting them to electrical form as is done today. The system, which acts like an optical traffic cop, soon will enable Global Crossing to route up to 10 terabits of information per second. That is the equivalent of routing 2 billion one-page e-mails per second. ``While some in the industry debate the practicality of deploying all-optical switching, Global Crossing and Lucent Technologies are committed to making it happen,'' said Jeong Kim, group president of Lucent's Optical Networking Group. ``Lucent has moved the LambdaRouter from our lab to a customer network with blinding speed to meet the industry's rapidly growing bandwidth demands.'' Lucent shipped the first LambdaRouter to Global Crossing on July 31. After completing successful lab testing of the product, Global Crossing began live network testing on Sept. 22, by using the system to route 2.5-gigabit wavelengths across its AC-1 transoceanic cable. The LambdaRouter is being tested on a route connecting New York City, Brook Haven, N.Y., and Whitesands, England. Award-winning technology is at the heart of unique networking demonstration In June, the LambdaRouter received a Discover Award for Technical Innovation from Discover magazine. Lucent is spotlighting the LambdaRouter at this week's Networld+Interop show in Atlanta, where it will be part of one of the first product demonstrations of its kind, a combination of Lucent optical and data networking products that will work together to transmit HDTV signals. The demo also will demonstrate bandwidth provisioning through a simplified network architecture