Alcatel Unveils DWDM System

DALLAS -- Alcatel (NYSE: ALA), a world leader inintelligent optical networking, today announced the introduction of its1696 Metro Span, specifically designed for carrier-class metropolitanand enterprise dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM)applications. This system delivers flexible features that can grow tomeet the continuing demand for greater network capacity from customerswith low construction and operation cost.“Advances in DWDM and switching technology are now allowing intelligentoptical networks to cost effectively extend from the core to themetropolitan network. Carriers and service providers are looking to themetro market to deliver new, revenue generating services to their endcustomers,” said analyst Grier Hansen of Current Analysis, one of theleading industry analyst firms in the field of optical networking.“Alcatel’s new 1696 Metro Span metro DWDM platform greatly strengthenstheir position in this rapidly growing network segment.”

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