Geachte redactie,
Alcatel heeft wederom een belangrijk contract getekend voor Fiber-to-the-Home in de VS. Afgelopen week nog werd een contract getekend met SBC. Dat contract werd als een doorbraak gezien. Wouter van Essenburg, product marketing manager van Alcatel Telecom Nederland, constateert dat uiteindelijk ook in ons land de overgang op glasvezel naar de woonhuizen en kantoren onvermijdelijk is. "Dit lange termijn beeld is inmiddels algemeen aanvaard, maar waar veel initiatiefnemers tegen aanlopen is de haalbaarheid van projecten op korte termijn. Alcatel heeft diverse gedetailleerde businesscases voor Fiber-to-the-User doorgerekend en waar wij in onze berekeningen steeds weer op uitkomen, is dat het essentieel is om een compleet dienstenpakket aan te kunnen bieden. Dus niet alleen snelle data-diensten, maar ook telefonie en TV over glasvezel. Dit is op korte en middellange termijn de enige manier om een rendabele business case te maken."
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Bristol Virginia Utilities selects Alcatel to build Fiber-to-the-Home network
Municipality plans advanced broadband network to serve more than 8000 homes
Paris, July 23, 2002 - Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA), the worldwide leader in broadband access solutions, and Bristol Virginia Utilities, a forward-thinking municipal utility in Virginia, today reached a multi-million dollar agreement to deploy the Alcatel 7340 Fiber-to-the-User (FTTU) solution in Bristol’s new all optical network.
Alcatel’s solution enables Bristol Virginia Utilities (BVU) to deliver the complete trilogy of services: voice, video, and high-speed data services. Alcatel’s 7340 FTTU solution enables BVU to deliver Internet access at much higher speeds than traditional dial-up modems, along with interactive video supporting analog and digital channels. Alcatel’s FTTU solution, using a standards compliant technology, supports these services today as well as emerging high-bandwidth services like online gaming, music downloads, video-on-demand and high definition TV. Multiple lines of toll-quality voice services are delivered over a single connection via leading technology from General Bandwidth Inc. General Bandwidth’s G6 packet telephony platform is part of Alcatel’s complete solution for voice, video and data delivery.
For Bristol and other municipal operators, the Alcatel 7340 FTTU is an ideal solution to deliver broadband to customers alongside traditional utility and electrical services. For example, a Bristol household will be able to simultaneously use four active phone lines, surf the Internet at fiber optic speeds, choose from hundreds of video channels, and take advantage of broadband services of the future – all delivered via a single fiber optic cable and with the convenience of a single bill to each consumer.
"Providing all three services - voice, video and high speed data - over Alcatel's single fiber solution to each home proved to be a critical element in the economic analysis of competing technologies," said James Salter, CEO, Atlantic Engineering Group, an independent design engineering firm working on the Bristol Virginia Utilities project.
“Alcatel’s experience as a leader in broadband access will enable us to be one of the first communities in the U.S. to offer households an advanced full service optical network with all its advantages,” said Jim Kelley, telecommunications manager, Bristol Virginia Utilities. “We will have the ability to provide a wide range of services backed with the high quality support that our customers expect and deserve.”
“Residents of Bristol, Va., will be among the technology elite by taking advantage of Alcatel’s efforts to expand the benefits of broadband access,” said Michel Rahier, President of Alcatel's Broadband Networking activities. “By working with a progressive municipality such as Bristol, we demonstrate another way in which we are committed to this goal.”
For more information about the Alcatel 7340 FTTU solution, www.alcatel.com/fttu
About Bristol Virginia Utilities
Bristol Virginia Utilities is a municipally owned system, providing electric, water, wastewater and telecommunication services to the City of Bristol, Va., and the surrounding area. These combined systems employ 68 people. It is governed by a six-member Board, including five members appointed by City Council and one member of the Washington County Board of Supervisors.
About Alcatel
Alcatel designs, develops and builds innovative and competitive communications networks, enabling carriers, service providers and enterprises to deliver any type of content, such as voice, data and multimedia, to any type of consumer, anywhere in the world. Relying on its leading and comprehensive products and solutions portfolio, stretching from end-to-end optical infrastructures, fixed and mobile networks to broadband access, Alcatel's customers can focus on optimizing their service offerings and revenue streams. With sales of Euro 25 billion in 2001 and 99,000 employees, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, www.alcatel.com
About General Bandwidth Inc.
General Bandwidth Inc. is a leading developer of telecommunications equipment that is central to the build-out of the new voice infrastructure. The Company’s flagship G6® platform enables service providers to cost effectively deploy next generation voice services over existing broadband infrastructures, while better utilizing existing resources, and enabling a graceful migration path to end-to-end packet networks. For information about General Bandwidth, www.genband.com.