Alcatel-Lucent has further strengthened its partnership with Deutsche Telekom (News - Alert) Group, or “DTAG,” with the signature of new optical transport contracts with four affiliates located in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. 

Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) officials said that the company’s optical transport solution will enable the affiliates to cope with increased bandwidth requirements to efficiently deliver fixed and mobile broadband data services, including mobile Internet, video and multimedia, high-speed Internet and triple play.

Company officials said that the four contracts have been signed with T-Mobile (News - Alert) Austria, T-Mobile Czech Republic, Slovak Telekom and PTC Poland.

For T-Mobile Austria, the company will upgrade the existing transport network connecting Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt and Graz to support 10GE and higher bandwidth per color. 

“Alcatel-Lucent’s advanced optical technology will enable the smooth transformation of our existing transport network to support the fast growing demand of mobile broadband and set the stage to meet future NGMN capacity requirements,” Christian Laqué, senior vice president networks at T-Mobile Austria (News - Alert), said.

Alcatel-Lucent for T-Mobile Czech Republic would enhance backhaul capacity and further improve service delivery efficiency and, as part of the contract for Slovak Telekom, the company would modernize the existing core network for service delivery and operational efficiency empowerment via automated provisioning.

PTC Poland would continue its network transformation and leverage enhanced backhaul capacity for high-bandwidth mobile application in a multi-vendor network environment.

“The Alcatel-Lucent optical system offers us a migration path to an Ethernet backhaul network, while continuing to capitalize on the cost and efficiencies of IP/Ethernet as bandwidth demand increases,” Tomasz Gerszberg, core & transmission department director, PTC Poland, said. 

Gerszberg also said that with this deployment, the company will be ready for the next generation of mobile broadband services at minimized cost per transported bit.

Alcatel-Lucent will supply to Deutsche Telekom’s four affiliates with its 1626 Light Manager, company officials said. 

“We are a long-time partner of Deutsche Telekom in the optical transport space in many countries,” Alf Henryk Wulf, head of the global account Deutsche Telekom and head of Alcatel-Lucent business in Germany, said. 

Wulf also said that this is a significant achievement which shows the ability of addressing the customers´ needs end-to-end with a tailor-made approach.

“Our 1626 Light Manager provides many benefits through its scalability, flexibility and low total cost of ownership,” Wulf added.