Italian Wi-Fi Contract Awarded to Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent says that it has won - as part of a consortium - a contract to build a municipal Wi-Fi network in Italy. Tecnofin Immobiliare, owned by the public administration of the Italian province of Trento, awarded Alcatel-Lucent and a consortium of sub-contracting companies that includes Essentia and Sensi, a contract to supply and integrate the first urban WiFi network in Trento.

It will serve public sites in the area, including schools, businesses and individual households, and will deliver broadband services to inhabitants and visitors.

"Trentino regards innovation as one of the mainstays on which to base its own territorial policies development, by focusing on opening to other realities on a European scale, and on its network development in order to achieve competitiveness, social, economical and cultural growth," Mr Lorenzo Dellai, Province of Trento's President, has emphasized. "The network Alcatel-Lucent is deploying will provide 1,600 WiFi access points and will be one of the largest in Italy and all of Europe."

Alcatel-Lucent will provide the engineering, integration, installation and commissioning and will be in charge of the operation, monitoring and maintenance of the WiFi network, which will employ an existing Alcatel-Lucent optical backbone network. In addition it will provide its Alcatel-Lucent 9500 MXC, a new generation of digital, medium-to-high-capacity, point-to-point microwave radio."

Posted to the site on 19th March 2007