Nov 30 2007
Communications network builder Nokia Siemens has won a contract from Italian operator Eutelia to build a high-performance fiber optic carrier network capable of meeting the growing demand for network capacity in Italy.
Eutelia, whose operation is spread across 35 Italian cities, struggled to manage network traffic when many of its carrier customers began to offer multimedia services.
The new network, featuring Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology, is expected to respond to the growing traffic demand, bringing in flexibility and cost efficiency to the Italian operator.
“We chose the Nokia Siemens Networks platform because its flexible transport architecture permits us to respond to the needs of a market which is constantly seeking greater band flexibility. Furthermore there is a simplified installation and maintenance. This particular system architecture needs few spare parts, which brings managing costs to a very low level,“ said Andrea Lazzaroli, the head of the transport network division of Eutelia.
The Nokia Siemens Networks DWDM platform, together with the Telecommunications Network Management System (TNMS), is among a new class of products for building transparent optical networks.