Alcatel-Lucent Extends 3G Agreement with AT&T
Alcatel-Lucent has announced an agreement for Alcatel-Lucent to support the expansion of AT&T's UMTS/HSPA wireless network. The expansion includes the deployment of Alcatel-Lucent's UMTS/HSDPA Distributed NodeB solution, which provides operators with the flexibility to deploy 3G radio network elements in a wide array of locations including the sides of buildings, existing cell sites, remote locations and more.
As part of the agreement – which builds on Alcatel-Lucent's November 2004 UMTS/HSPA supply agreement with AT&T - Alcatel-Lucent has expanded the end-to-end, turnkey UMTS/HSPA solution, including messaging, voice switching and network applications and services. Alcatel-Lucent also has previously supplied AT&T with an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) service delivery solution - TDM, ATM and MPLS networking solutions, as well as ADSL/VDSL broadband access and optical advanced platforms.
"Alcatel-Lucent has had a longstanding relationship with AT&T," said
Cindy Christy, President of Alcatel-Lucent's Americas business. "The
introduction of our Distributed NodeB reinforces
Alcatel-Lucent's worldwide leadership in mobile broadband, highlights our strong
footprint in the North America market and underscores our commitment to helping
service providers transform their services, network and business to profitably
increase voice and data penetration, and enable mass-market wireless broadband."
Posted to the site on 15th February 2008
