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Belgacom Deploys AlcaLu's XRS Router

February 18, 2013 |
PARIS -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) and Belgium’s leading service provider, Belgacom, today announced plans to expand its network infrastructure as it continues to address the exponential growth in bandwidth demand driven by demand from customers, businesses, data centers and content platforms.

Belgium is home to a large number of international organizations, including the European Commission. In deploying Alcatel-Lucent’s Extensible Routing System (XRS), Belgacom will be better able to handle the data demand created by such institutions as well as residential customers, making use of significantly more capacity to meet current and future bandwidth demands being driven by video, cloud-based applications and immersive multimedia delivered across an array of increasingly capable devices.

The XRS system also takes up less physical space and consumes dramatically less power than alternative routers, delivering cost and efficiency benefits to operators like Belgacom.

Core routers direct data traffic at the heart of the Internet network and determine the speed at which ‘packets’ of data are delivered. Alcatel-Lucent’s 7950 XRS router is the highest performing and most reliable core router available. It dramatically lowers operational complexity and deployment risks for service providers while providing an immediate boost to the IP core.

Alcatel-Lucent



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