Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Lucent Wins Two Optical Contracts with China's Guangdong Eastern Fibernet

Guangdong Eastern Fibernet Company (GEFC) awarded two contracts to Lucent Technologies for expansion of its SDH and DWDM network across Guangdong province. Under the contracts, Lucent's LambdaUnite MSSs will be deployed to form the core ring of the SDH network in the cities of Guangzhou, JiangMmn and Shenzhen. This core ring will connect the metro rings formed by Lucent Metropolis ADM in Zhaoqing, Zhanjiang, Jieyang, Shantou and Huizhou. GEFC also will deploy Lucent's WaveStar ITM-SC network management system to help integrate the new hardware into its existing SDH network. The WaveStar OLS 1.6Tand Metropolis EON will be deployed in the major cities of Guangdong province. Financial terms were not disclosed. Shanghai Tiantong Telecommunications Equipment Co., LTD, a Lucent Business Partner, has provided pre-sales support on both projects.
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