Lucent to Supply Optical Networking Systems for Liaoning Telecom's Provincial Backbone Networks - Lucent Technologies Inc - Brief Article

Lucent announced that it has signed a $15 million contract with China's Liaoning Telecom for Lucent's flagship optical networking products, developed with the expertise of scientists at Lucent's Bell Labs. These products will significantly increase the capacity of the provincial networks of China's Liaoning Province and enable the company to offer new bandwidth-intensive data services to its customers.
Liaoning Telecom is a subsidiary of China Telecom, China's largest telecommunications service provider. Under the terms of the contract, Lucent will deliver its WaveStar OLS 400G--an 80-channel DWDM system with a maximum capacity of 400 Gbps. That is the equivalent of transmitting five million simultaneous phone calls -- or 80 million one-page e-mails -- per second.
This is the largest contract that Lucent has signed with Liaoning Telecom. The equipment is scheduled to be deployed by May 2001.DWDM technology provides such enormous capacity by simultaneously transmitting multiple wavelengths or colors of light across a single fiber strand, with each color carrying a distinct stream of information.
"Our optical networking equipment and solutions enable our customers to offer their customers faster, more reliable service with more advanced features," said Chi Hung Lin, president of Lucent's optical networking group in China. "We firmly believe our fruitful relationship with Liaoning Telecom will produce continued successes in terms of helping our customer build first-class telecommunications networks in Liaoning province."
Lucent's Bell Labs has garnered more than 2,500 patents in optical technology alone. Lucent was first to market with a DWDM system in 1995.