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Lucent to boost Orange UK's ATM network
January 21, 2003
Lucent Technologies today announced that it has won a multi-million
dollar contract with Orange in the UK to provide solutions and services
that will boost the capacity of its ATM Access Transport network.
The network enhancements will support increases in the volume of
voice, video, and data traffic and significantly reduce operational
costs as Orange rolls out its 3G service offerings.
Lucent is providing Orange UK with PacketStar (PSAX) 2300, and
4500 Multiservice Media Gateway systems to provision the aggregation
and management of all 3G interface traffic (voice, data and video).
The new platforms will also consolidate traffic management for existing
2G services within the same infrastructure, offering Orange significant
reductions in operational expenditure.
"We were very impressed by the flexibility, scalability and competitiveness
of the PacketStar (PSAX) solutions against other products in the
marketplace," said Graham Baxter, head of Network Design and Systems
Infrastructure for Orange in the UK.
Delivering up to 10Gbs of switching capacity, the PacketStar (PSAX)
Multiservice Media Gateways offer the highest port capacity per
inch of any product of its type on the market today. This is vitally
important for mobile operators where space at network edge sites
is often very limited.
Lucent is supplying Navis AQueView, an element management system
which allows a highly scalable, permanent centralised or regional
management point where the network solution can be easily monitored,
provisioned and controlled.
"The Lucent PacketStar (PSAX) technology makes this possible and
offers a flexible, high-performance solution for Orange as they
further develop their ATM infrastructure to support the rollout
of exciting new 3G services for their subscribers," said Carlos
Mira, president Mobility Europe for Lucent Technologies.
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