South Carolina-based Spirit Telecom will migrate its data network to an IP/MPLS backbone using Alcatel’s IP service router. Specifically, Spirit will use the Alcatel 7750 Service Router (SR) and the Alcatel 5620 network management portfolio to converge the carrier’s national network onto a single network. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alcatel.comhttp://www.spirittelecom.com
- Earlier this month, Alcatel unveiled a number of hardware and software enhancements for its Alcatel 7750 IP/MPLS edge routing platform, including a new hierarchical QoS model, greater scalability and support for VPLS, new traffic engineering capabilities, channelized DS3 and OC-12 interfaces, new CALEA capabilities, a new mid-range chassis, CWDM capabilities, and support for 1000BaseTX SFP.