Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Australia's Optus Selects Lucent for Multiservice Switching and VoDSL

Optus, a national Australian service provider, has deployed Lucent's voice over DSL (VoDSL) technology, including its PacketStar 1250 Multiservice Media Gateway, Cellpipe integrated access devices, and Navis AQueView Element Management System. Financial terms were not disclosedhttp://www.lucent.com

  • Lucent offers a range of PacketStar (PSAX) media gateways for deployments scaling from small hub locations to central offices. The Lucent PacketStar gateways enable any-service, any-channel flexibility for circuit emulation, Frame Relay and ATM in Nx64 blocks within the same T1/E1 line. The gateways also offer an Edge Router Module for multiservice interworking to IP and multiservice Layer 2 VPNs. The largest, 15-slot PSAX 4500 media gateway handles up to 120,000 DS0s in a seven foot rack. The PSAX 1250 media gateway is available in 10-slot or 14-slot models.