MURRAY HILL, N.J. - Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced an upgrade to its flagship 80-channel optical networking system that will quadruple the number of wavelengths the system can handle to 320 and double its overall capacity.

Designed by Bell Labs, Lucent's new WaveStar(tm) OLS 800G is a 320-channel dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) system with a maximum capacity of 800 gigabits per second (Gb/s). That's the equivalent of transmitting approximately 400 feature-length films each second.

The system, which will offer a record-breaking number of optical channels per fiber, will be commercially available in the first calendar quarter of 2001.

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