Lucent Powers KT Network

SEOUL -- Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced that it has been awarded a contract to supply optical line systems to KT, South Korea's largest communications service provider, to power KORNET, KT's Internet network. Lucent is a major provider of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology for KT's long-haul optical network.

Under the terms of the contract, Lucent will deliver and deploy WaveStar® OLS 1.6T systems with the capacity of 800 gigabits per second (Gb/s) in the major cities of Seoul, Busan and Suwon by the end of August. By expanding KORNET's backbone network and adding capacity, KT will be able to efficiently manage broadband traffic growth and provide high-quality data services to its customers.

"KORNET provides high-speed Internet service through the nation's largest backbone network," said Yong-soo Kim, director, Transmission Network Planning, Core Network Group, KT. "We believe that Lucent's technological expertise has helped us ensure that KORNET meets our customers' high expectations for quality."

"We're very pleased to continue working with KT on its backbone network expansion," said John Yang, president and chief executive officer, Lucent Technologies Korea. "We work hard to help our customers make the most of their existing investment in their networks so they can cost effectively increase network capacity and easily offer new value-added services."

Developed by Bell Labs, Lucent's R&D arm, the WaveStar® OLS 1.6T system is an ultra-high-capacity DWDM system that offers up to 160 10-Gb/s wavelengths for a total capacity of 1.6 Tb/s on one fiber - the equivalent of transmitting 320 million one-page e-mails per second. It is based on an open architecture that enables it to operate in multi-vendor environments and helps carriers deliver high-bandwidth services to their customers while maximizing fiber performance, and improving the return on the existing network investment. The product architecture supports Gigabit Ethernet and 10GbE, SONET, SDH, and any mix of signals from 100Mbps to 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps in the same system.

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