AT&T awarded a multi-year agreement to Lucent Technologies to supply its Metropolis DMX Access Multiplexer and Metropolis DMXtend Access Multiplexer for deployment in the AT&T intelligent optical network. The equipment enables AT&T to deliver a full range of SONET and Ethernet services, while leveraging their installed SONET infrastructure. Financial terms were not disclosed. Lucent Worldwide Services also is providing program management, engineering and installation services to AT&T.
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- Lucent’s Metropolis product family includes the DMX Access Multiplexer for central office and large enterprise applications, the DMXpress for customer premises applications, and a new DMXtend box for enterprise and loop access applications. All three systems provide metro Ethernet over SONET (EoS) using Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) and Virtual Concatenation technology.
- In June 2003, Lucent announced a contract to supply its Metropolis DMX Access Multiplexer to BellSouth.
- In February 2002, AT&T announced the integration of Cisco Systems’ ONS 15454 SONET Multiservice Platform and the Cisco Transport Manager as key elements of its nationwide optical network buildout. AT&T is using the Cisco ONS 15454 to provide multi-service aggregation of lower-rate customer traffic up to high-speed (OC-48 or OC-192) pipes for routing across the network. AT&T said it would also use CIENA’s CoreDirector optical switch as another key elements in its new intelligent optical network. AT&T is using the CoreDirector to carry traffic at a variety of bit-rates, from 45 Mbps to 10 Gbps, for provisioning services via point-and-click capability at both ends of the circuit.