Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Korea's Dacom Selects Lucent to Expand Backbone

Dacom, one of South Korea's leading wireline and broadband service providers, selected Lucent Technologies to supply optical networking systems to expand its DWDM backbone network and also to build out a storage DWDM network for its customer, Korea's Supreme Court. The contract covers Lucent's Metropolis Enhanced Optical Networking (EON), a 32-channel DWDM metro optical system, in three metropolitan areas of Seoul, Inchon and Daejeon as well as major cities in Gangwon province. The contract marks the first time that Metropolis EON is being used as a storage networking application in Korea. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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