OTE Selects Alcatel to Upgrade and Expand Optical Networks

Alcatel-Lucent is upgrading and expanding the existing transport infrastructure of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization as part of projects valued at more than E12 million.

Alcatel-Lucent’s optical solutions currently under implementation will support Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) program to extend the distribution of high-speed services in major urban and regional areas.

Alcatel-Lucent has undertaken the upgrade of OTE’s existing optical backbone routes already based on Alcatel-Lucent’s next-generation synchronous digital hierarchy (NG-SDH) and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technologies, the upgrade of the submarine link between Bari – Italy and Corfu – Greece, as well as the rollout of new optical multiservice rings throughout Greece.

Frederic Rose, president of Alcatel-Lucent’s activities in Europe, Africa and Asia, said: “The advanced flexibility, aggregation capabilities and scalability offered by our optical solutions will help OTE accomplish its market objectives.”