Alcatel-Lucent has reportedly secured a $12 million contract with Bechtel Inc., a global company for engineering, construction, and project management, for the deployment of a fully integrated telecommunications infrastructure to support onshore and offshore operations of Angola LNG Limited’s new plant in the Republic of Angola.

Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert), as per the terms of the contract, will be responsible for the design, construction and commissioning of a turnkey communications solution, along with comprehensive network integration support to ensure the rapid rollout of Angola LNG process plant telecommunications system.

In a release, company officials said that Alcatel-Lucent will also provide a complete set of professional services including designing, installation, commissioning, supervising, integration and testing services as well as the overall network planning and design.

“I am very pleased and proud that Bechtel has entrusted this project to Alcatel-Lucent, which further strengthens our growing role in delivering sophisticated, secured communications systems to enterprises in key vertical markets such as the energy sector”, said Adolfo Hernandez, president for Alcatel-Lucent’s activities in Europe, Middle East and Africa, in the release.

Hernandez said that this project reinforces Alcatel-Lucent’s ability to act as end-to-end network integrator to design, integrate and deploy robust, resilient communication solutions.

Recently TMCnet reported that Alcatel-Lucent has reportedly been selected by Aljeel Aljadeed for Technology, a subsidiary of Libyan Post Telecommunications & Information Technology Company in Libya, to deploy its IP/MPLS (Multi- Protocol Label Switching) backbone across the eastern part of the country.

With the contract in place, Aljeel Aljadeed for Technology would now be able to deliver advanced broadband services with superior quality to its residential and corporate subscribers.

Alcatel-Lucent officials said that under the terms of this multi-million dollar European contract, the company will provide Aljeel Aljadeed for Technology with a comprehensive set of services including design, consulting, project management, installation, commissioning, integration, on-site technical assistance and training.

Alcatel-Lucent will deploy an IP/MPLS infrastructure based on its Service Router portfolio and the Alcatel-Lucent “5620 Service Aware (News - Alert) Manager,” which provides high-bandwidth capacity for more personalized high-speed Internet, video and voice quality services.