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Alcatel-Lucent Launches World's First 'Green DSL'
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Alcatel-Lucent's green DSL leverages the reduced power consumption of its latest generation of DSL line cards, the company's unique distributed DSLAM concept and Alcatel-Lucent's Smart DSL technology.
"Today, standards exist that allow modems to go in a low-power mode when user traffic is low. However, re-activating these modems causes power fluctuations -- resulting in crosstalk and destabilizing the network," said
Not only does Alcatel-Lucent's latest ISAM release support a significant power reduction compared to conventional DSL solutions, it is also the first commercially-available DSL platform for ETSI markets that delivers 50Mbs to all users -- with peaks up to 100Mbs -- anywhere in the network because of its new, high-capacity, very high-speed DSL (VDSL) line cards and its support of VDSL bonding technology across the line card. This ISAM release incorporates the company's third generation of VDSL line cards, highlighting Alcatel-Lucent's innovative technology and market leadership in the DSL space, while supporting its applications enablement strategy through physical layer synchronization for mobile backhaul and enhanced support for business services.
"Operators challenged by recessionary and fiber business case limitations want to optimize investment in their existing copper networks while also offering sustained higher bandwidth over an extended reach. In conjunction with the expected growth of FTTB, VDSL2 remains an important option to support higher bandwidth services to residences and enterprises and for mobile backhaul," noted
"Release-4 of the ISAM platform puts Alcatel-Lucent more than one year ahead of its competitors," said
This release supports Alcatel-Lucent's comprehensive eco-sustainability program that includes using innovation to build smarter, eco-sustainable networks at all layers (access, transport and core) with a framework that addresses hardware, software, network and site innovation.
Alcatel-Lucent's leadership in DSL builds on its award-winning ISAM product family. The ISAM family has now been deployed at more than 210 customers worldwide. Since its launch five years ago, the ISAM family has been adopted by approximately one customer per week, consolidating Alcatel-Lucent's number-one position in IP broadband access.
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-- Alcatel-Lucent confirms 1Q'09 broadband access leadership, performing strongly in VDSL and GPON (June 8th, 2009) -- Guangdong Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent to deploy first VDSL2 network in China (June 3rd, 2009) -- Alcatel-Lucent confirmed as global IPTV access and middleware market leader (Apr 30th, 2009) -- Alcatel-Lucent evolves its IP access platform which is powering advanced triple play services around the world (September 30th, 2008) -- Alcatel-Lucent extends broadband access portfolio with fiber to the building (FTTB) solution (March 5th, 2008)About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions that deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical and scientific expertise of
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