Lucent Technologies was awarded a multi-million dollar contract with Orange in the UK to boost the capacity of the ATM access network supporting its forthcoming 3G service. Lucent is providing Orange UK with PacketStar (PSAX) 2300, and 4500 Multiservice Media Gateway systems to provision the aggregation and management of all 3G interface traffic (voice, data and video). The new platforms will also consolidate traffic management for existing 2G services within the same infrastructure. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- Lucent’s PacketStar (PSAX) 4500 Multiservice Media Gateway is a compact ATM, Frame Relay, IP, TDM edge access switch designed for wireline and mobile operators. The PacketStar 4500, which offers up to 10 Gbps of switching capacity, delivers circuit-to-packet, voice over digital subscriber line (VoDSL), packet trunking and Internet PRI (primary rate interface) offload applications. The channel capacities of the PSAX 4500 range from 24 ports of OC12C to 120, CES DS-0s per rack. The product also integrates a new DSP2D voice server module and supports standards-based voice over multimedia over ATM.
- Lucent’s PacketStar (PSAX) 2300 Multiservice Media Gateway is an edge device with 2.3 Gbps of ATM switching capacity.