Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems International selected Lucent Technologies to increase the capacity of the North American element of its international backbone ("Telekom Global Net") from 2.5 Gbps to a full coverage 10 Gbps network. Specifically, Lucent will provide T-Systems with its LambdaUnite MultiService Switch (MSS), a next generation optical transport system and switch, with an element capacity of 320 Gbps. Further capacity expansion to a multiple 10 Gbps or even 40 Gbps meshed network is possible. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- In June 2003, T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom's IT and network integration business, opened a new headquarters for the Americas in New York City. The carrier is targeting network solutions for the North American operations of multinational corporations that already do business with T-Systems in Europe.
In April, Deutsche Telekom's T-Systems division extended its IP-VPN MPLS network services into North America.
In March 2003, T-Systems selected Lucent Technologies' LambdaUnite MultiService Switch for its global backbone, "Telekom Global Net" (TGN). The LambdaUnite is designed to bridge traffic from metro networks onto optical core backbones. The deployment will quadruple the capacity of TGN's network across 10 European countries. It also offers the advantage of a meshed structure, instead of the ring structure employed in older systems. In addition to LambdaUnite, T-Systems is also integrating Lucent's WaveStar TransLAN card, a plug-in card that upgrades SDH multiplexers with Ethernet interfaces and facilitates the provisioning of Ethernet services to corporate customers.
In January 2002, Lucent shipped its first LambdaUnite Multiservice Switch (MSS) to Deutsche Telekom for testing.
