Alcatel-Lucent - Alcatel-Lucent to arrange new abysmal cable arrangement bond India to Western Europe

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has active a turnkey arrangement with a bunch composed of nine operators to arrange a new abysmal cable arrangement bond Mumbai in India to Marseilles in France, over about 13,000 km. Named India-Middle East-Western Europe (IMEWE), this new abysmal cable arrangement meets the charge for enhanced, backhaul communications capabilities alternating the India-Western Europe route, as able-bodied as for added accommodation to abutment high-bandwidth broadband services. As allotment of IMEWE, a earthbound hotlink will aswell be deployed in Egypt to affix the cities of Alexandria and Suez.

The nine parties that anatomy the bunch cover Bharti, Etisalat, France Telecom, Ogero Telecom, PTCL, STC, Telecom Egypt, Telecom Italia Sparkle and VSNL. With achievement appointed in the endure division of 2009, IMEWE will advice abutment the all-around cartage advance apprenticed by the charge of peer-to-peer IP-based casework including video applications, broadband Internet, downloading, articulation and video calling.

As Internet users crave top bandwidth for a best above of experience, these avant-garde casework abode new accommodation demands on adopted advice networks. With an minimum architecture accommodation of 3.84 Terabit/s - 128 x 10Gbit/s on three cilia pairs, IMEWE will be composed of two block cables abutting India to France via Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon and Italy. Along the route, this cable arrangement will accept ten landing credibility amid in Mumbai (two), Karachi, Fujairah, Jeddah, Suez, Alexandria, Tripoli Catania and Marseilles. Alcatel-Lucent will body the turnkey arrangement with the abutment of its subcontractor NEC who will accommodate and install the wet bulb from Mumbai to Jeddah.

“IMEWE reflects the charge for added capacity, connectivity and assortment to best accommodated the end-users’ demands,” said Mr. K.P. Tiwari, Chairman of the consortium’s Management Committee. “With its field-proven acquaintance in arrangement deployment and activity management, Alcatel-Lucent is a trusted accomplice to facilitate bounded and all-embracing connectivity.”

“We are admiring to abutment Alcatel-Lucent in this activity acceptable the cooperation a allotment of our companies that has already accurate able in agnate ample abysmal systems” said Osamu Harada, General Manager of Submarine Network Division at NEC Corporation. “In such above arrangement our cooperation grants the Purchasers the top believability and aegis for appropriate delivery.”

“Our charge is to bear the a lot of beat abysmal technology to advice our barter accommodated the connected advance of broadband acceptance ante with the accomplished quality,” declared Etienne Lafougère, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s abysmal arrangement activity. “This new arrangement confirms the believability of our abysmal solutions as able-bodied as our end-to-end adeptness to accommodate every allotment of a all-around carriage network.”

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Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that accredit account providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to bear voice, abstracts and video advice casework to end-users. As a baton in fixed, adaptable and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that accredit acute communications casework for humans at home, at plan and on the move. With operations in added than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a bounded accomplice with all-around reach. The aggregation has the a lot of accomplished all-around casework aggregation in the industry, and one of the better research, technology and addition organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent accomplished revenues of Euro 17.8 billion in 2007 and is congenital in France, with controlling offices amid in Paris. For added information, appointment Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: www.alcatel-lucent.com