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Ewz Selects Alcatel's Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture

Posted on: Thursday, 6 March 2008, 09:00 CST

Alcatel-Lucent has announced that and power supply firm ewz has selected its Triple Play Service Delivery Architecture to deliver high-speed broadband voice, video and data services to residential and business customers in Zurich.

The solution will provide a standards-based Open Access Network (OAN), allowing users to select services from many service providers. The contract also includes network maintenance. Alcatel-Lucent will a flexible and reliable provide infrastructure with nearly unlimited available bandwidth enabling service providers to deliver advanced broadband services including high-definition television (HDTV), video-on-demand (VOD), VoIP and high-speed internet access.

Under the term of the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will deploy a complete end-to-end solution, including its 7450 Ethernet Service Switch, the OmniSwitch 6850 Ethernet Access Switch, the 5620 Service Aware Manager for integrated network and service management, as well as residential and business customer premises devices.

Peter Messmann, managing director of telecom from ewz, said: "During the selection process, we have been convinced by the high quality and performance of the metro ethernet vendors we have looked at. The vendors had to meet our requirements - for example for the set up of prototypes in the ewz locations - all in a short timeframe. Alcatel-Lucent has won the tender as they could best match all of our requirements."

Source: Datamonitor

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