Verizon has chosen Lucent Technologies as one of several providers of next generation SONET equipment. Under the three-year agreement, Verizon will deploy the Lucent Metropolis DMX portfolio of metro optical networking products, and the LambdaUnite MultiService Switch (MSS), a high-capacity, multi-service switch which will manage traffic from many metro access networks. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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.
Lucent’s LambdaUnite is designed to bridge traffic from metro networks onto optical core backbones. The single-shelf system was recently optimized for smaller metro applications, supporting in-service upgrades from 160G to 320G, as well as to 640G. Mesh restoration capabilities were also added to help carriers migrate to new mesh-based networks, while at the same time, leveraging traditional protection architectures.
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- In September 2003, 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.
- In June 2003, Lucent announced a contract to supply its Metropolis DMX Access Multiplexer to BellSouth.