STOCKHOLM -- Mobile Operator 3 in Denmark has selected Transmode to supply transmission equipment for its optical network. Transmode's system will be used throughout Denmark.

The order includes new software and hardware with new functionality, which will support four fully protected network rings for backhauling SDH and Gigabit Ethernet traffic to a central network HUB, over two fiber pairs.

Transmode supplies 3 in Denmark with 28 nodes, covering Sjaelland and Jutland fiber networks. Each collector node includes one protected STM-16 channel up to the network HUB. The order includes Transmode's one-card STM-16 channel Muxponder and Double Dual Gigabit Ethernet card for CWDM, enabling up to 336 protected STM-1 channels in all 8 rings, as well as a management end to end optical circuit monitoring system.

"The support and services from Transmode as well as the reliability and the robustness of the Transmode all-in-one system is well suited to our high demands", says Esbjörn Nordesjö, Head of Network Engineering at 3's Nordic headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. "The management integration also allows increases our ability to monitor and control the equipment in our network."

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