Hutchison 3G Selects 186k, Nortel Networks to Provide UK Wide Optical Network

date: September 20, 2001

Hutchison 3G UK today announced an agreement with 186k, the telecommunications business of Lattice Group, to provide a nationwide fibre optic network and co-location services.

Under a separate agreement also announced today, Hutchison 3G has chosen Nortel Networks to provide 10 gigabits per second per channel dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) optical equipment to light 186k's fibre optic network and to provide the connection between the fibre network and Hutchison 3G's wireless network. The value of the agreements was not disclosed.

186k's twenty-year agreement will provide Hutchison 3G with 'dark fibre' capacity across its entire network, which will span nearly 2,000 kms and connect 20 major centres of demand across the UK when operational at the end of 2001. Hutchison 3G is the first customer to take advantage of 186k's network, which is designed specifically to carry the huge quantities of multimedia traffic generated by 3G mobile and other broadband services.

Nortel Networks has agreed to install Nortel Networks OPTera Long Haul 1600 Optical Line System, a DWDM solution scaleable to 1.6 terabits per second per fibre. The agreement with Nortel Networks also provides for the Hutchison 3G network to be supported by Nortel Networks Preside network management, a key part of Nortel Networks Smart Management System. Equipment is expected to be installed at 24 sites and lit in three stages. Completion is scheduled by the end of February 2002.

Colin Tucker, Managing Director of Hutchison 3G said: "Hutchison is dedicated to making true mobile multimedia a reality in the UK delivering richer, more enjoyable and more relevant content and services to our customers. Achieving this depends on the quality of our backbone and the ability of our suppliers to deliver the network solution to handle the bandwidth demands of true multimedia communications.

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