Cablevision Mexico to deploy the first commercial 100 Gbps optical network in the country, supplied by Alcatel-Lucent, to increase network capacity and speed to meet exploding demand for high-bandwidth services in the fast-growing Mexican market
Mexico City, June 4, 2012 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Cablevision, one of the largest cable operators in Mexico, will upgrade the operator’s transmission network to 100 gigabits-per-second (100G) data speeds to help address booming demand in the country for services like high-definition streaming video, high-speed web access and advanced business applications.
Cablevision’s innovative100G network infrastructure – the first 100G network being deployed in Mexico – will enable the operator to move huge amounts of traffic and address the rapidly increasing volume of data through the region created by demand from consumers and businesses for bandwidth-hungry services. The network will expand capacity dramatically and offer a better quality of experience to subscribers while also reducing operating and maintenance costs and lowering power consumption.
Israel Madiedo, CTO Telecom at Cablevision said: “The high quality broadband services we are deploying in Mexico will help provide substantial benefits in the country – helping to drive economic growth and help bridge the digital divide. In addition to enabling us to expand services and keep costs in check, this deployment in Mexico of 100G technology will help us make our network more environmentally sustainable by reducing energy consumption on the network quite dramatically.”
Pierre Chaume, president of Alcatel-Lucent Mexico, stated: “Supporting Cablevision in establishing this superfast data network further demonstrates our leadership in fiber-optic communications, and highlights our momentum in the fast-growing Latin American market. Demand for better services like high-definition video is increasing data volumes by as much as 50 percent each year. To enable customers like Cablevision to manage this demand, innovations like our 100G transport technology can support a richer set of broadband services including Video on Demand, more HD channels, home connections at speeds up to 100 megabits-per-second, Voice over IP, and many others.”
For this project, Alcatel-Lucent is supplying Cablevision with the 100G next-generation coherent technology, supported by the 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS). Designed to address the booming demand for more bandwidth driven by video streaming, web applications and cloud services, Alcatel-Lucent 100G technology offers exceptional performance, resilience and reliability in existing and ‘greenfield’ optical transmission networks.
The solution deployed is part of Alcatel-Lucent’s Converged Backbone Transformation Solution, a key domain of the Alcatel-Lucent High Leverage Network™ (HLN) architecture, defined to slash transport costs and dramatically reduce operational complexity in core networks.
About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
The long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments around the world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leading innovator in the field of networking and communications technology, products and services. The company is home to Bell Labs, one of the world’s foremost research centers, responsible for breakthroughs that have shaped the networking and communications industry. Alcatel-Lucent was named one of MIT Technology Review’s 2012 Top 50 list of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies” for breakthroughs such as lightRadio™, which cuts power consumption and operating costs on wireless networks while delivering lightning fast Internet access. Through such innovations, Alcatel-Lucent is making communications more sustainable, more affordable and more accessible as we pursue our mission – Realizing the Potential of a Connected World.
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