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T-Com's New ``EthernetConnect'' Service Enabled By Lucent Technologies; Lucent's Ethernet-Over-Optical Offer Ready for WAN-Based Gigabit Ethernet Services

Posted on: Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 12:00 CDT

At the Systems 2004 trade show opening in Munich yesterday, T-Com, the fixed line division of Deutsche Telekom, announced its new "EthernetConnect" range of business to business ethernet over optical services. Lucent is delivering equipment for the "EthernetConnect" product family for delivering Ethernet services, combining the speed and reliability of fast optical backbones with proven Ethernet technology that is the standard in local area networks.

Through its "EthernetConnect" service, T-Com is able to offer fast Ethernet service at speeds of 10, 50 and 100 megabits per second (Mbit/s), seamlessly connecting Local Area Networks(LANs) at customer locations throughout Germany. Using a standardized Ethernet "socket" installed by T-Com on the customer premises, company customers can connect directly to T-Com's state-of-the-art SDH fiber network. There are no investment costs for WAN routers and the operating costs are reduced because maintenance and administration are less expensive.

The high-capacity, high speed optical multiplexers supplied by Lucent can be equipped with Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) interfaces, enabling T-Com to do capacity upgrades to GigE for its customers at any time. In several pilot projects, T-Com is already installing GigE in customer locations.

"EthernetConnect" is based on T-Com's high-speed SDH platform. In the past, the fast Ethernet lines mainly used Lucent's lower-capacity optical multiplexers. With the expansion Lucent's optical networking portfolio, higher-capacity systems like the Wavestar(R) ADM 16/1, the Metropolis(R) ADM Multiservice Mux (universal and compact shelves), Wavestar(R) TDM10G and LambdaUnite(R) MultiService Service Switch(MSS), are all able to be equipped with GigE plug-in cards,increasing transmission capacity in 150-Mbit/s steps to a maximum of 1 Gbit/s.

"Gigabit Ethernet allows you to better exploit existing optical infrastructure, and the combination of fast Ethernet and GigE allows service providers like T-Com to offer a variety of new services and cut down costs", said Rainer Fechner, vice president and general manager, Optical Transport and Cross-Connect Systems, Lucent Technologies. "By focusing on the design and development of standardized interfaces, Lucent has committed to providing T-Com with products that are equipped today for the services of tomorrow."

Quality assurance for T-Com's new service is provided by Lucent's OSS software portfolio. T-Com is able to maximize its Quality of Service with real-time root-cause fault correlation for rapid trouble shooting, isolation and resolution across their multi-vendor network domains. For more information about the Lucent OSS software portfolio for service assurance, service provisioning, element management, mediation and modeling visit: http://www.lucent.com/solutions/qos.html.

About Lucent Technologies

Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information on Lucent Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit www.lucent.com.

Source: Business Wire

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