SK Telecom Upgrading Optical Backbone Network

South Korea's SK Telecom is upgrading its optical backbone to support increased traffic from mobile data services, using kit supplied by Alcatel-Lucent. The company says that it has rolled out its optical cross-connect technology to help SK Telecom support the increasing bandwidth needs driven by the expansion of its 3G W-CDMA and WiBro service offerings while delivering enhanced mobile traffic backhaul capabilities early October.

"This new achievement builds on the long-lasting and successful cooperation with SK Telecom in paving the way for new services," said Frederic Rose, President of Alcatel-Lucent's Asia Pacific activities. "We are committed to assist our customers like SK Telecom to lead the era of fixed-mobile convergence as data and transport worlds move closer."

Designed for metro and core applications, the Alcatel-Lucent 1678 MCC integrates data and transport functionality into a single node, thus optimizing network investments. Simplifying network operations, the Alcatel-Lucent 1678 MCC offers a solution to fixed and mobile operators who want to aggregate and consolidate multi-protocol traffic streams from the metro towards the core.

Posted to the site on 12th October 2007