Sprint selects the Tellabs 7100 optical transport system to deliver wavelength services to its customers

March 5, 2003

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NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Sprint selected the Tellabs 7100 optical transport system to help it quickly and easily deploy wavelength-based services to its local, long-distance and wireless customers. The Tellabs 7100 system, a dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) platform, will enable Sprint to transport wavelengths of light over a single pair of fiber without having to reengineer their entire network each time a wavelength is added, helping increase productivity and lower operating costs. The Tellabs 7100 optical transport system is being deployed in Sprint's North Carolina and Florida networks. "We selected the Tellabs 7100 optical transport system because it offers a very user-friendly deployment of wavelength-based services," said Bill Vest, vice president-network engineering for Sprint. "Sprint relies on Tellabs technology because the technology efficiently moves communications traffic across our state-of-the-art network." The Tellabs 7100 system's parallel architecture simplifies Sprint's network management operations. It enables Sprint to add or delete wavelengths and nodes with a few computer keystrokes, eliminating the need to impact existing revenue-generating traffic. "For almost 20 years, Tellabs has been working with Sprint to help it manage its network bandwidth," said Rob Pullen, Tellabs' senior vice president of marketing and sales for North America. "By adding the Tellabs 7100 optical transport system to its network, Sprint can now easily deploy wavelength-based services to its customers." Sprint Corp. Tellabs Inc.

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