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Topics: Main | Metro | Long-Haul | 10 Gbps | 40 Gbps | Components | All Optical Switching | PONs | Start-ups | Contracts | Standards | Videos | Archive   Lucent Ships Ethernet-over-SONET Platforms Lucent Technologies named three customers for its new Ethernet-over-SONET platform: Cavalier Telephone, Everest Connections and Toronto Hydro Telecom. Lucent's Metropolis product family includes the DMX Access Multiplexer for central office and large enterprise applications, the DMXpress for customer premises applications, and a new DMXtend box for enterprise and loop access applications. All three systems provide metro Ethernet over SONET (EoS) using Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) and Virtual Concatenation technology. Cavalier Telephone, a full-service facilities based telephone company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is deploying GigE packet rings in its mid-Atlantic telecommunications network. Everest Connections, a Kansas City-based broadband service provider offering digital cable television, local and long distance telephone service and high-speed Internet access, is using the DMX and DMXpres for business Ethernet services and to carry T1 voice trunks into its 5ESS switches. Toronto Hydro Telecom is using Lucent's Ethernet-over-SONET for a metro network that aims to link major office buildings in Toronto. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.lucent.com 10-Feb-03 In January, Lucent announced that China's Jiangsu Unicom had selected its Metropolis Ethernet/SDH metro access multiplexer and Metropolis ADM MultiService Mux for deployment in five cities across Jiangsu province. The optical backbone will be used to connect wireless base stations and mobile switching centers to long-distance networks.   No video on this topic yet.. contact us to present your views. Recent Optical News China Telecom to Accelerate FTTH and Mobile Rollouts Colt Deploys Infinera in Low-Latency European Backbone AppliedMicro to Acquire TPACK for Emerging OTN Hong Kong's PCCW Deploys Huawei's 40G OTN Level 3 Wins Networx Contract for Social Security Administration EXFO Adds Tunable DPSK Testing to its 40G/43G Solution PMC-Sierra Collaborates with Incognito Software on FTTx for MSOs VI Systems Ships First Circular VCSEL Arrays EXFO Boosts its Optical Spectrum Analyzer Russia's FORATEC Selects Ciena's CN 4200 EU's BIANCHO Project Targets Energy Efficient Photonic Components CALIENT and Freeport Offer Govt Teleconferencing NSN Supplies LH DWDM for First Communications NTT Adds 588,000 Optical Access Lines in Q2 EXFO Boosts its Blazer Multiservice Test Modules > More news... Learn How to Get Your Video on this Site   Search  this site   Search the Web   Get Your Column Published Emergency Response and Wireless Location Systems by Manlio Allegra Interview: NSN's Sue Spradley on LightSquared's Wholesale Mobile Data Paradigm by Sue Spradley Mobile Backhaul Transition Requires New Testing by Joe Zeto Cybersecurity Requires Public/Private Coalition by Greg Oslan A Rethinking of Cloud Services and Network Architecture by Jim Theodoras Delivering Scalable Video Solutions <br><i> Advantages of SVC-Optimized QoS</i> by Andy Singleton   E-mail Newsletter Subscribe Now