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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3228)	7/10/2001 1:19:15 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

LUCENT LANDS DWDM CONTRACT WITH TYCOM GLOBAL NETWORK Lucent Technologies was awarded a one-year, $90 million contract to supply its WaveStar OLS 800G system for the TyCom Global Network. The equipment is expected to be deployed by Q3 2002 in TGN's West Coast routes in the US and in routes in Japan and southern Europe. The 800G system can provide up to eighty 10 Gbps wavelengths. lucent.com Lucent Technologies, July 9, 2001 Last month, the transatlantic segment of the TyCom Global Network entered its final testing phase and began carrying multiple 10 Gbps wavelengths of traffic. In May, TyCom selected CIENA's CoreDirector and MultiWave CoreStream optical switching and transport systems for its new global network. The CIENA equipment would be used as an intelligent platform for automated service provisioning, dynamic protection and restoration on integrated long-haul and ultra long-haul routes reaching all six inhabited continents. Phase one plans call for deployment in the Transatlantic and Northern Europe systems of the TyCom Global Network. Initial orders were valued at more than $150 million. In April, TyCom and FLAG Telecom agreed to join their previously announced transpacific network projects in a shared development arrangement that will result in a single, undersea cable system.