Alcatel Announces Nouveaux Fibers

PARIS -- Alcatel (NYSE: ALA and Paris: CGEP.PA), world leader in intelligent optical networking, today introduced two new advanced optical fibers, TeraLight Metro, designed for metropolitan networks, and TeraLight Ultra, designed for terrestrial long-haul and ultra long-haul applications. As operators continue to expand the reach and capacity of their optical infrastructures, they face a number of challenges to ensure best-in-class performance consistently throughout the network at the lowest cost. TeraLight Metro and TeraLight Ultra are the only Non Zero-Dispersion Shifted Fibers (NZ-DSF) that offer a cost-effective solution to operators to upgrade from today's systems to higher bit-rates (10, 40Gbit/s and beyond), to utilize more transmission bands and to increase the number of channels per band. Alcatel is rapidly developing its portfolio of advanced fibers, which will become an intrinsic part of the network as data-rates continue to increase.

"Advanced fibers like TeraLight are becoming an increasingly more critical part of optical fiber networks," stated Jacques Blanc, President of Alcatel's optical fiber business. "Advanced fibers have been aggressively deployed globally over the last few years. Alcatel, a leading global supplier of optical fiber solutions, is at the forefront of this development and today's announcement just reinforces our strength in providing leading-edge optical fiber solutions to meet the challenges of higher bit-rates, lower costs and network optimization."

Alcatel SA