Lucent Technologies has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract with KPN Mobile to supply asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) infrastructure and software to support the operator's 3G UMTS network. Lucent will deliver equipment and services for a core ATM backbone network that will enable KPN Mobile to efficiently manage large increases in network traffic as customers subscribe to new 3G UMTS services.
Lucent will be providing equipment to build KPN Mobile's Universal Mobile Transport Network (UMTN), its core ATM aggregation network for 3G UMTS. Lucent will deploy its GX 550 Multiservice WAN Switch at six locations across the Netherlands to develop a high-speed backbone network that is able to support ATM, Frame Relay and Internet Protocol (IP), and will provide a reliable network infrastructure that is easily scalable to adapt to future growth in network traffic.
KPN Mobile will manage the ATM network with the Lucent NavisCore Element Management System and NavisXtend Fault Server to provide centralised end-to-end provisioning and network management including network configuration, fault handling and performance monitoring.
NavisCore and NavisXtend software are part of the Navis iOperations software portfolio, Lucent's open, standards-based portfolio of Network and Element Management Systems."
Posted to the site on 1st October 2003
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