Lucent Supplies Optical Upgrade for Hanaro Telecom's Backbone

Hanaro Telecom, one of South Korea's largest broadband service providers, selected Lucent Technologies to supply its DWDM systems for a nationwide backbone upgrade. Specifically, Lucent will deliver and deploy WaveStar OLS 1.6T systems in the major metropolitan areas including Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Daejeon and Gwangju by the end of August. The new equipment will increase Hanaro's long-haul transmission network capacity to 800 Gbps. Lucent's WaveStar OLS 1.6T DWDM system offers up to 160 10-Gbps wavelengths for a total capacity of 1.6 Tbps on one fiber. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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