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Australia’s
TransACT selects Alcatel-Lucent for FTTH Deployment
Paris, August 10, 2007 –
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced it has
been selected by TransACT Capital Communications, a Canberra-based
telecommunications carrier, to complete a fibre to the home (FTTH)
rollout to new greenfield sites in Canberra. The network will cover
1,000 premises and an anticipated population of 2,500 people by
2013.
Project developers in Canberra, in conjunction with the Land
Development Agency, issued a tender for the FTTH project last year,
which was subsequently won by TransACT. Alcatel-Lucent was then
chosen after a competitive tender process against eight other
providers to design and deploy the network.
The first network project will be in Forde, a new suburb in
Gungahlin, Canberra. The deployment is TransACT’s first venture into
Gigabit passive optical network (GPON) FTTH technology. Residents
will also receive unlimited free local calls to over 30,000 other
TransACT phone customers, as well as capped national and
international call rates.
“The FTTH network is now a key consideration for inclusion when
assessing broadband deployments in suburbs, as it’s a future-proof
technology offering nearly unlimited bandwidth availability to carry
new high speed services,” said Rod Barrett, Project Manager,
TransACT. “We needed a solutions provider that could accommodate our
customers’ increasing demand for our existing bandwidth-hungry
product offerings, including Video on Demand (VoD), Voice over IP (VoIP)
and IPTV services. We chose Alcatel-Lucent because of its technology
leadership in GPON and the proven reliability and scalability of its
platform for widespread deployment,” Barrett added.
“FTTH was the natural progression for a reliable high speed
broadband multiservice network in 'greenfields' and will deliver
appreciable social and economic benefits to a community, said Hilary
Mine, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Australasia activities. “The
TransACT contract demonstrates our commitment to accelerating high
speed broadband services across the country, and reinforces our
global leadership in greenfield and brownfield broadband fibre
deployments,” Mine concluded.
Under the terms of the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will deliver its
7342 GPON ISAM Fiber-to-the-User product, along with the Optical
Network Terminals (ONTs) and the related management software.
TransACT will also be working with Alcatel-Lucent on future FTTH
bids in the Canberra area.
Alcatel-Lucent remains the uncontested global market leader in
broadband access, with more than 142 million DSL lines shipped to
date. It is engaged in more than 65 FTTx projects around the world,
with more than 35 using GPON. Alcatel-Lucent is the first vendor to
deliver a Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Group-compliant GPON
system and is currently engaged with service providers such as
Verizon (US), AT&T, Ministry of Communications (Kuwait), Jönköping
(Sweden), Singtel (Singapore), and City Cable Shunan Corporation
(Japan).
About TransACT
TransACT Communications Pty Limited was established in 2000 and has
since been building and maintaining a highly sophisticated
fibre-optic network to provide Canberra and Queanbeyan with
world-class communication services. TransACT offers fixed-line and
IP telephony, broadband internet and mobile phone services, as well
as a subscription television service with real-time entertainment
on-demand.
About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU) provides solutions
that enable service providers, enterprises and governments
worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services
to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband
networking, IP technologies, applications, and services,
Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable
compelling communications services for people at home, at work and
on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries,
Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has
the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one
of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in
the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved adjusted
proforma revenues of Euro 18.3 billion in 2006 and is incorporated
in France, with executive offices located in Paris. [All figures
exclude impact of activities transferred to Thales]. For more
information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com
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