Lucent Technologies named three customers for its new Ethernet-over-SONET platform: Cavalier Telephone, Everest Connections and Toronto Hydro Telecom. Lucent's Metropolis product family includes the DMX Access Multiplexer for central office and large enterprise applications, the DMXpress for customer premises applications, and a new DMXtend box for enterprise and loop access applications. All three systems provide metro Ethernet over SONET (EoS) using Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) and Virtual Concatenation technology. Cavalier Telephone, a full-service facilities based telephone company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is deploying GigE packet rings in its mid-Atlantic telecommunications network. Everest Connections, a Kansas City-based broadband service provider offering digital cable television, local and long distance telephone service and high-speed Internet access, is using the DMX and DMXpres for business Ethernet services and to carry T1 voice trunks into its 5ESS switches. Toronto Hydro Telecom is using Lucent's Ethernet-over-SONET for a metro network that aims to link major office buildings in Toronto. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- In January, Lucent announced that China's Jiangsu Unicom had selected its Metropolis Ethernet/SDH metro access multiplexer and Metropolis ADM MultiService Mux for deployment in five cities across Jiangsu province. The optical backbone will be used to connect wireless base stations and mobile switching centers to long-distance networks.
