Alcatel increasing bandwidth per user for Telefónica

June 8th, 2006 - Telefónica de Espana, the Spanish telco that is currently preparing the expansion of its Imagenio IPTV service across the whole of Spain, has selected Alcatel to provide access, aggregation and optical networking solutions so it can offer high bandwidth interactive services to its consumer and corporate customers.

According to Alcatel, "The integrated and flexible architecture will provide higher bandwidth capacity per subscriber with unique differentiated Quality of Services, enabling the simultaneous delivery of personalised multimedia services such as IPTV, VOD and HDTV to residential customers and advanced Virtual Private Network services for its corporate customers."

Enrique Carrascal, network general manager at Telefónica, comments: “We trust in the support of a strategic partner like Alcatel and its experience and leadership in the broadband market, to evolve our network towards the provision of innovative services that are demanded by our customers. Our objective is that they can all enjoy these high quality services."

For broadband access, Alcatel will provide its 7302 Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) platform, said to be the first high bandwidth IP access platform with xDSL interfaces ranging from ADSL 2+ to the latest VDSL2, and specifically designed to deliver a range of interactive services such as Video On Demand, IPTV, high-definition TV or high-speed Internet access to all users simultaneously.

Telefónica will be able to offer any service from any equipment port, and will combine multiple real-time applications in the network with a guaranteed Quality of Service.

In the aggregation network, the Alcatel 7450 Ethernet Service Switch will enable Telefónica to offer corporate access services and virtual private networks (VPNs) based on MPLS, on a national level. The solution’s unique hierarchical quality of service (H-QoS) capabilities mean that Telefónica can differentiate the traffic it carries, guaranteeing varying classes of service levels, and optimising bandwidth. The Alcatel 7450 also supports multiple service types “with tremendous scale and quality of service“, which guarantees that stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs) on business-critical data applications can be met.

For the transport network, Alcatel will provide its dense and coarse WDM optical networking equipment to deliver triple play services, Storage Area Network (SAN) extension and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. Based on its 1692 Metrospan Edge and 1696 Metrospan, the Alcatel WDM solution enables network owners to multiply ring capacity up to 32 times.

Michel Rahier, president of Alcatel’s fixed communications activities states: “Telefónica is leveraging Alcatel’s unparalleled experience in triple-play deployments worldwide. Our network infrastructure, based on industry-leading solutions and unique end-to-end integration capacity, is reinforcing Telefónica’s advanced communication and entertainment services. This success also strengthens our position of partner in such strategic network transformations.”