Alcatel-Lucent wins €21.6mn contract to deploy optical network for Türk Telekom

June 3, 2008 - Alcatel-Lucent has won a contract worth €21.6mn from Türk Telekom to deploy an optical network using an intelligent control plane for the telco, enabling automatic traffic provisioning to deliver enhanced network protection, operation and maintenance.

The new optical networking solution will be deployed in the cities of Ankara, Adana, Istanbul and Izmir, and will reportedly help Türk Telekom to deliver existing and new services, including Ethernet-based services, to business and residential users. Intelligent control plane is based on automatically switched optical network/generalised multi-protocol label switching (ASON/GMPLS) technology, and allows dynamic networking and traffic protection.

“Driven by IP-based video and multimedia high bandwidth services, a network transformation is occurring in the optical core network, where huge traffic increases have to be supported along with high availability,” said Frédéric Rose, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s business in Europe, Africa and Asia. “This new contract confirms our ability to assist our customers in their network transformation plans and a commitment to the underlying technology innovation.”

Alcatel-Lucent will also supply its Optical Mlti-Service Node (OMSN) systems to extend the telco's current transport infrastructure, based on Alcatel-Lucent’s synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technologies. The existing Alcatel-Lucent 1350 management suite will manage the new equipment.