GT's Weekly Telecom Technology News Digest

GT's Telecom Technology Weekly News Digest

Deployments, Deals, and More

Turk Telekom adds DWDM Network
KPNQwest Supplies European IP VPN for Dell
Portugal Telecom’s TMN Prepares for 3G
Telefonica Unifon Launches Wireless Internet in Argentina

5 January 2001

Turk Telekom adds DWDM Network

Turk Telekom is building a new high-speed national backbone to connect major cities across Turkey and expand the carrier’s telecommunications infrastructure to handle growing demand for multimedia services. The project, using dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology from Alcatel as part of a $30 million contract, will be able to carry up to 32 channels at 10 Gb/s (gigabits per second), the equivalent of 38 million simultaneous telephone conversations. Alcatel says the DWDM terrestrial solution for Turk Telekom includes forward error correction (FEC), a technology previously used for submarine networks, to improve the quality of the transmitted signal and reduce network costs. Alcatel also is supplying an integrated network management platform for DWDM and synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH).

Turk Telekom
www.telekom.gov.tr

Alcatel
www.alcatel.com

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4 January 2001

KPNQwest Supplies European IP VPN for Dell

KPNQwest will be supplying an Internet protocol (IP)-based virtual private network (VPN) solution for a 21-site network of offices, manufacturing facilities and call centers in Europe for Dell Computer Corp. The agreement includes security and routing technology, dual access, and customer premises equipment (CPE) to guarantee uninterrupted service for continuous operation of Dell’s European applications. KPNQwest says several of the sites within the IP VPN network will have dedicated 34 Mb/s (megabits per second) connections.

KPNQwest
www.kpnqwest.com

Dell Computer Corp.
www.dell.com

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3 January 2001

Portugal Telecom’s TMN Prepares for 3G

Telecommunicacoes Moveis Nacionais (TMN), Portugal Telecom’s mobile operator, expects to launch universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) service on December 1, 2001, after completing a deal with Alcatel to supply UMTS/3G technology. Alcatel is expected to install the infrastructure in the greater Lisbon area and will ship and install about 1,000 sites this year. Alcatel previously delivered its general packet radio service (GPRS) end-to-end solution to TMN.

Telecommunicacoes Moveis Nacionais (TMN)
www.tmn.pt

Alcatel
www.alcatel.com

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Telefonica Unifon Launches Wireless Internet in Argentina

Telefonica Unifon, the second largest carrier in Argentina, has launched E-mocion, giving its 1.7 million subscribers access to wireless Internet services such as personal information management, restaurant reviews, movie listings and bank account balances. To offer the services, Telefonica Unifon is using the Openwave UP.Link server and enhanced services from Openwave Systems Inc. to offer E-mocion with time division multiple access (TDMA) circuit-switched data.

Openwave Systems Inc.
www.openwave.com

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