LDCOM has named Marconi as a key partner for its xDSL rollout in France. Marconi's Access Hub will be deployed throughout major cities in France. The company has already supplied 85 units and LDCOM is currently enhancing its capacity to respond to the expected growing customer demand. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- Marconi's Access Hub features a 32-line xDSL line card enabling up to 576 xDSL lines in a single shelf. The Access Hub, which supports up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth on the backplane, could also act as a wireless or fiber aggregation point.
- The Louis Dreyfus Communications Group (LDCOM) is a competitive carrier to France Telecom and operates an 11,000 km national fiber backbone. http://www.ldcom.fr
- In October 2002, LDCOM selected Cisco Metro Ethernet Switching to deliver Ethernet-based connectivity services to both businesses and service providers across France. LDCOM is offering Ethernet last mile connectivity to businesses directly on fiber, coupled with Ethernet and MPLS VPNs in the core network backbone.
