China Telecom awarded contracts to Alcatel to supply equipment for 920,000 new DSL lines. Under the contracts, Alcatel will provide the DSL lines to China Telecom subsidiaries in 18 provinces and municipalities in southern China including Shanghai, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Fujian and Anhui by the end of the year. The installation includes the Alcatel 7300 Advanced Services Access Manager (ASAM) and the 5523 Alcatel ADSL Workstation (AWS) Element Management System. China Telecom is already using Alcatel equipment in its existing DSL network. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Along with other new contracts, Alcatel said it has now booked orders for more than one million new DSL lines in China this month. The contracts were won through Alcatel Shanghai Bellhttp://www.alcatel.com
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- Networking News from China: http://www.convergedigest.com/regionalnews/china.asp
