Alcatel Participates in Germany's VIOLA Project

Alcatel will supply its optical and routing equipment to Germany's Project VIOLA (Vertically Integrated Optical test bed for Large Applications), which will provide a multi vendor and multi layer, integrated data and optical network linking major research centers. The VIOLA network will connect a new Supercomputer with more than 8 TeraFlops of computing power (eight trillion operations per second) located in Julich, near Bonn, to several other computing clusters supporting different applications and requirements. Alcatel is part of a multi-party consortium that includes Deutsche Telekom (DTAG). http://www.alcatel.comhttp://www.viola-testbed.de