Tuesday, September 2, 2003

Korea's DACOM Selects Laurel's Service Edge Router

Dacom, one of South Korea's leading wireline and broadband service providers, selected Laurel Networks' ST200 Service Edge Router to deliver scalable, QoS-enabled Layer 2 and IP VPN services from the edge of its network. DACOM will use the equipment to extend its ATM service across its metropolitan Ethernet access network. DACOM is also using the Laurel edge router to introduce next-generation Ethernet services delivered with QoS. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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  • In August 2003, Lucent Technologies announced a contract to supply optical networking systems to expand DACOM's DWDM backbone network and also to build out a storage DWDM network for DACOM's 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.