PARIS -- Alcatel (Paris: CGEP.PA and NYSE: ALA), the world leader in point-to-point microwave radios, announced that its catalogue is being enriched with a new product family for point-to-point wireless communication links, supporting free space optics (FSO) technology. The innovative Alcatel 9600 FSO and Alcatel 9400 FSO systems are being showcased in preview at CeBIT (Hall 27, Stand A32) in Hannover, Germany.Using eye-safe laser beams, the high-capacity Alcatel 9600 FSO SDH/SONET and low-capacity Alcatel 9400 FSO PDH systems carry voice and data services in the last mile and urban environment. This advanced product line operates at a wide range of speeds providing carriers, 2G/2.5G/3G mobile infrastructures, corporate and utility networks with new wireless connectivity over variable distance. Alcatel's brand-new license-free FSO product family enables to start up services easily and rapidly over point-to-point spans, while securing fast return on investment. They can also be re-deployed - in a different site or a new link - giving carriers the flexibility to adapt their network in response to end user changing demands for added-value services.Its management is integrated under Alcatel's network management platform, which offers operators the freedom to evolve and customize their network management system according to their diversified business and operational requirements. "Capitalizing on the existing Alcatel microwave product families, the Alcatel new wireless product line empowers our value proposition to the market," stated Gianni Jones, president of Alcatel's wireless transmission activities. "The ability of the Alcatel 9600 FSO and 9400 FSO to interface with systems already in place and their rapid deployment meet carriers' key requirements for fast payback and minimized capital risk."Alcatel SA