Saturday, January 14, 2012

OTN Systems -- Fiber Optic Backbone for the Tren Urbano Metro Line in Lima, Peru

The Lima Metro, known to locals as the Tren Eléctrico, is an electric mass transit line in the Lima Metropolitan Area. The OTN Systems flagship product OTN-X3M, with a transport capacity of 10 Gbit/s and carrier grade Ethernet features, installed in this new metro project to support all the applications needed to operate the metro line.

The OTN-X3M product family is the most reliable transmission equipment with the most secure IP/Ethernet features available on the market today. This multiservice network allows end-users to optimize the CAPEX and OPEX for their fiber optic telecom backbone systems with a user-friendly end-to-end management system.

OTN Systems first entered the Latin American market more than 15 years ago with projects in Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and Chile.

About OTN Systems
OTN Systems is the leading supplier of networking products for critical infrastructure. The company is the designer and supplier of the Open Transport Network (OTN). OTN is a unique system that can integrate virtually all existing applications for voice, data, LAN, video, SCADA, etc. into one high speed network, using a fiber optic backbone. OTN Systems was created on July 1st 2008, but has a track record that goes back to the eighties within the Siemens Group.

With a unique product portfolio, more than 400 satisfied customers, a partner network reaching out to every corner of the world and an enthusiastic team, OTN Systems promises you peace of mind when it comes down to mission critical networking: OTN Systems is committed to get your information across. Further information is available on www.otnsystems.com or you may contact OTN Systems by e-mail at info@otnsystems.com .

Monday, January 9, 2012

Market and Technology Forecasting

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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Argentina’s Cablevision selects Alcatel-Lucent’s 100 Gigabit optical solution

Buenos Aires, December 13, 2011 – Cablevision Argentina, one of the Latin America’s largest cable TV and Internet services providers, will be the first cable operator in South America to deploy an advanced optical networking solution to deliver services at 100 gigabits per second (100G) speeds. Cablevision Argentina has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s next-generation 100G optical coherent networking solution to dramatically increase performance and service speeds to meet the growing demand for video, multimedia and Internet applications from its customer base.
 
Cablevision has more than three million CATV customers and more than one million Internet users in Argentina, and offers the service of Cablevision Digital HD. With the growth of subscribers and traffic quickly exhausting the company’s fiber capacity, the operator was looking for a solution to manage increasing traffic while reducing the complexity and cost of providing high quality services.
  
“With Alcatel-Lucent’s solution, we are taking a major step towards providing a highly flexible, future-proof network, scaling up to 100G, to support current and future bandwidth demands with increased efficiencies and reduced time-to-market for new services,” said Gabriel Carro, head of Engineering for Cablevision Argentina.
 
Alcatel-Lucent is supplying its 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) featuring next-generation 100G coherent technology to dramatically improve capacity scalability. This is the first 100G-capable cable TV network deployed in South America. Beyond expanding network capacity, the solution will help Cablevision reduce operating and maintenance costs and lower power consumption.
 
 Designed to address the booming bandwidth demands driven by video streaming, web applications, file sharing and high definition movies, next-generation 100G coherent technology is the compelling next step in optical networking, offering unprecedented resilience to optical transmission impairments across the network.
 
 “Cablevision continues to lead the Argentinean cable TV market with the rapid expansion of its offerings, including new high definition channels and the highest Internet speed commercially available. Our 100G solution offers unprecedented capacity, bandwidth scalability, and the lowest cost-per-bit for optimized total cost of ownership,” said Osvaldo Di Campli, president of Alcatel-Lucent's activities in the Caribbean & Latin America region.
 
 Alcatel-Lucent’s 100G offering is part of its Converged Backbone Transformation solution, a key component of Alcatel-Lucent’s High Leverage Network™, an architecture designed to assist operators in transforming their networks to deliver advanced, revenue-generating services in a highly scalable and easy to maintain solution.

  About Alcatel-Lucent’s High Leverage Network™

The Alcatel-Lucent High Leverage Network™ (HLN) architecture addresses the dual challenges of simultaneously scaling and managing network capacity to meet increasing bandwidth demand while delivering differentiated, revenue generating services. It achieves this by delivering scalable bandwidth at the lowest cost per bit and by embedding intelligence in the network to enable dynamic service creation and delivery. The foundation for the Alcatel-Lucent Application Enablement vision, the HLN architecture collapses multiple complex costly overlay networks into a simpler, fully optimized network that leverages technical innovations and embraces existing environments.

About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)

The long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic industries and governments around the world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leader in mobile, fixed, IP and Optics technologies, and a pioneer in applications and services. Alcatel-Lucent includes Bell Labs, one of the world's foremost centres of research and innovation in communications technology.

With operations in more than 130 countries and one of the most experienced global services organizations in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach.

The Company achieved revenues of Euro 16 billion in 2010 and is incorporated in France and headquartered in Paris.

For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com, read the latest posts on the Alcatel-Lucent blog http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/blog and follow the Company on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Alcatel_Lucent.







First Commercial 4G/LTE Wireless Network in a Latin American Country


PARIS and MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Antel, a leading provider of communications services in Uruguay, and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) are now making the promise of high-speed mobile broadband a reality in Uruguay by delivering the first commercial 4G/LTE wireless network in a Latin American country.  The network has been designed and built based on Alcatel-Lucent's complete, end-to-end LTE solution. Antel's subscribers will enjoy the most advanced mobile phone services such as, HD video, high-speed navigation, high quality videoconferencing, online gaming and other applications. LTE Services will initially be available in Montevideo and Punta del Este, and will evolve to provide additional coverage.

"Alcatel-Lucent's combination of global experience and LTE track record, allow us to bring very high speed mobile broadband services into our subscribers' homes and offices, unlocking a wealth of services to enrich their mobile broadband experience," said Carolina Cosse, Antel's president.

"This deployment represents a significant milestone for the introduction of the most advanced mobile services in Uruguay and in South America overall.  As mobile phone penetration continues to experience very high growth in the region, the delivery of a 4G network will allow Antel to capitalize on this growth by providing their subscribers with a new breed of experiences and capabilities," said Gabriel Costa, leader of Alcatel-Lucent activities in Uruguay.

For this project Alcatel-Lucent will provide Antel with a complete, end-to-end 4G LTE solution – including LTE base stations (eNodeBs), the IP wireless Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and Operations and Maintenance services. Antel will also be leveraging Alcatel-Lucent's IP portfolio of products for backhaul of the mobile traffic.

The Alcatel-Lucent solution also provides a future evolution path to the company's breakthrough lightRadio™ product family that will dramatically reduce operating costs, technical complexity and power consumption in mobile broadband networks. Designed to meet the long-term needs of mobile operators seeking to ensure their networks can handle increasing traffic loads, lightRadio radically shrinks and simplifies today's base stations, promising greener, simpler, lighter networks.

Alcatel-Lucent has established a strong global leadership position in 4G LTE having been selected by 18 customers, including two of the world's largest service providers for commercial deployments, and being involved in over 70 trials worldwide.

Please visit our website to learn more about our 4G LTE solution.

ABOUT ANTEL

Antel is a state owned company, leader in the Uruguayan telecommunications market. The company provides fixed and mobile services including voice, data and Internet access. Antel also counts within their group three subsidiaries: ITC S.A for consultancy services, HG to provide value added IT solutions and ACCESA for contact center solutions to the Uruguayan and international markets. For more information, visit Antel on the Internet: www.antel.com.uy

About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)

The long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises, strategic industries and governments around the world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leader in mobile, fixed, IP and Optics technologies, and a pioneer in applications and services. Alcatel-Lucent includes Bell Labs, one of the world's foremost centres of research and innovation in communications technology.

With operations in more than 130 countries and one of the most experienced global services organizations in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach.

The Company achieved revenues of Euro 16 billion in 2010 and is incorporated in France and headquartered in Paris.

For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com, read the latest posts on the Alcatel-Lucent blog http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/blog and follow the Company on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Alcatel_Lucent.

El Salvador: Social Telecom Projects (Cable & Wireless Panama)

21 December 2011
CABLE & WIRELESS PANAMA LAUNCHES SERVICES IN EL SALVADOR
The Panama business of Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has opened an office in El Salvador in order to extend its managed services expertise into a new market.

Cable & Wireless Panama has implemented a number of social telecoms projects (telecoms-enabled public services) in Panama including teleradiology, telemammography, CCTV surveillance, a Court telecoms system and a 911 Service.

Earlier in 2011 Cable & Wireless Panama was chosen to create a 911 system for the Government of El Salvador. The Director of the National Police of El Salvador, Commissioner Carlos Ascencio Giron attended the opening ceremony for the new office.

Chief Executive Officer of Cable & Wireless Panama, Jorge Nicolau, said:
"Cable & Wireless Panama has positively impacted Panamanians with world class technology and telecommunication services and we are confident that with the support and backing of the Government of El Salvador, of private companies and citizens, we can succeed in developing innovative solutions that will benefit the people of El Salvador."

The office is located at Plaza Futura in El Salvador’s capital city, San Salvador.

Honduras: Dual Stack IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP, Packet Synchronization & Circuit Emulation Technologies


Orckit-Corrigent Ltd. (NasdaqGM: ORCT), a leading Packet Transport Network (PTN) vendor and TELSOL, a leading telecommunication group in Central America, announced that Cable Color, a leading telecommunication service provider in Honduras, has selected Orckit-Corrigent’s IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP based CM-4000 PTN switches and the accompanying CM-View network management system to introduce a networking environment for broadband and enterprise VPN services.

"Cable Color continues to operate a highly advanced network using state-of-the-art technologies to provide a wide range of broadband services to our customers," said Mr. Cesar Rosenthal - CEO of Cable Color. "Orckit-Corrigent's solutions aggregate DSLAMs and transport 10Gbit broadband with advanced traffic management and quality of service technologies to meet our specific technical and economical requirements. This investment is another clear evidence for our: More than a Cable company, providing an access to the world vision”

Orckit-Corrigent’s CM-4000 portfolio is a series of small, medium and large capacity Packet Transport Network switches that offer any combination of Ethernet, SDH and PDH services to facilitate migration towards a unified packet network. The products are based on dual stack IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP, packet synchronization and circuit emulation technologies, and are designed to scale up the delivery of residential, business and mobile backhauling services in next-generation telecom infrastructure networks.

"Orckit-Corrigent is pleased to include Cable Color in our growing global customer base,” said Mr. Izhak Tamir, Co-Founder and President of Orckit Communications. “This selection highlights the effectiveness of our solution for next-generation networks. We announced the first deployment of CM-4000 products about two years ago and have since then significantly increased our presence and customer base in Central and Latin America, the Asia-Pacific, and Europe, with the addition of both Tier-1 and Tier-2 service providers."

About Cable Color: More than a Cable Company , an access to the world Cable Color began operations in the city of Tegucigalpa. Due to rapid growth and acceptance, to date they operate in several cities of the country including: Valle de Angeles, Santa Lucia, Comayagua, Siguatepeque, Choloma, Omoa, Puerto Cortes, Villanueva, San Pedro Sula, Santa Rosa de Copan, La Ceiba and we continue to expand as the company expanded coverage and national growth.

They were the first company to transmit cable television through a fiber optic network in Honduras, the first private fiber optic cables running back to Puerto Cortes Tegucigalpa and now continue to work to provide our customers with innovative services to both communication and entertainment, including cable TV, internet, telephony, data transport and similar ones with the highest levels of quality, always at the forefront of technology and a continued focus on excellence in customer service.
Winning international recognition as Arroba Gold Bizz awards for quality and satisfied all of our subscribers primarily in cities around the country are those who attest to the commitment, quality and prestige of a national company such as Cable Color.

About TELSOL

TELSOL is one of the Central America’s largest telecommunications groups. The group operates subsidiaries in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama, primarily in Honduras, Central America. It currently employs more than 30 employees around the Central America region and is a supplier of products and services in the fields of deployment and maintenance of cellular, alternative Carriers, ISP, VoIP Providers, Enterprises and wireless communications infrastructures, since 2010.

About Orckit Communications Ltd.

Orckit facilitates telecommunication providers' delivery of high capacity broadband residential, business and mobile services over wireline or wireless networks with its Orckit-Corrigent family of products. With 20 years of field experience with Tier-1 customers located around the world and sound leadership, Orckit has a firm foothold in the ever-developing world of telecommunication. Orckit-Corrigent's product portfolio includes Packet Transport Network (PTN) switches - an MPLS and MPLS-TP dual stack based portfolio enabling advanced packet as well as legacy services over packet networks with a wide set of transport features.

Orckit-Corrigent markets its products directly and indirectly through strategic alliances, as well as distribution and reseller partners worldwide. Orckit was founded in 1990 and went public in 1996. The company is active in APAC, Western and Eastern Europe, and America.
For more information, please visit www.orckit.com. Follow Orckit on Twitter @ORCT

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

SCTE Adopts Fusion Splicing Standard


The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) has approved SCTE 134 2012, Fusion Splicing Equipment and Applications for the Cable/Broadband Industry. 

The standard defines the equipment, methods, and practices used within the cable/broadband industry to obtain consistent low loss fusion splice connections between optical fibers. 

The document is available at http://www.scte.org/standards/Standards_Available.aspx