Alcatel signed an OEM agreement to resell General Bandwidth’s G6 Packet Telephony Migration Platform for providing Voice over ATM in fiber to the user (FTTU) networks. Alcatel will integrate, resell, and support General Bandwidth’s carrier-class platform to selected customers and engage in joint marketing activities as appropriate. The G6 features a scalable 60 Gbps backplane, supports IP, ATM and TDM in the same platform, and offers an element management system that is Telcordia OSMINE certified.
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- In July, 2002, Alcatel announced a multi-million dollar agreement under which SBC had agreed to deploy the Alcatel 7340 Fiber-to-the-User (FTTU) solution for residential customers in SBC Pacific Bell’s Mission Bay project in San Francisco. General Bandwidth was selected to provide the voice component of the project.
Alcatel has recently announced a series of OEM and technology partnership agreements, including:
- fSONA, for its Free Space Optics (FSO) as a subsystem of the Alcatel high capacity wireless solution. Alcatel’s high-capacity urban wireless systems are being integrated with FSO technology. Free space optics delivers point-to-point, fiber-like services over the air using lasers.
RADVISION, for its new viaIP gw-P20/M Gateway, which supports real time video telephony sessions between 3G-324M enabled cell phones/PDAs and multiple IP and ISDN-based videoconferencing systems. The system is based on the 3G-324M standard for real-time multimedia communications over WCDMA and CDMA2000 3G/UMTS networks. The RADVISION product will be matched with the Alcatel 5020 Softswitch acting as an H.323 gatekeeper, which manages the fixed IP videophones or PCs with an embedded Webcam and a broadband connection to the Internet (xDSL, cable modem or corporate).
Adjungo Networks, for its wireless LAN security & management systems, which offers several secure authentication mechanisms for WLAN users, such as SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) based and Virtual SIM authentication, which leverages the mobile network capabilities supporting 802.1x hot spots and Web-based hot spots. The offer also includes an SMS (Short Message System) based authentication feature.
Native Networks, for its technology for metro Ethernet over SDH in its Optical Multi-Service Node (OMSN) equipment. Alcatel’s Optical Multi-Service Nodes aggregate multiprotocol traffic onto SDH. Although configurable as ADMs (Add-Drop-Multiplexers), OMSNs have cross-connect capability and already support point-to-point Ethernet connections. Under the new partnership, Alcatel is leveraging Native Networks’ Metro Ethernet technology to introduce enhanced transport and aggregation of Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet services, along with Packet Ring functionality.
IP Wireless, for its TD-CDMA (TDD) mobile broadband technology. The TDD solution, which will support Alcatel’s portfolio of UMTS/3G and WLAN networks and services, is aimed at mobile operators wishing to complement their GSM/GPRS and WCDMA services with enhanced TDD coverage in dense business areas.
