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French Operator Selects 3G UMTS Transmission Solutions

27th November 2002

Alcatel announced that leading French mobile operator Cegetel/SFR Group has signed a multi-million Euro contract for Alcatel's flagship multiprotocol, platform family, network management and services.

Inset is the Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform.

As part of the deal, SFR will deploy the Alcatel 7670 Routing Switch Platform (RSP) to aggregate both voice and data traffic, in its UMTS radio access network, and to optimize the UMTS network transmission costs.

Reducing infrastructure costs by eliminating the requirement for overlay networks, Alcatel's multiservice, multiprotocol edge and core platforms offer a unified data infrastructure for 2, 2.5 and 3G mobile services. The Alcatel 7670 RSP is ideally suited to meet operator requirements for quality of service for voice and data services, a smooth evolutionary path from TDM to ATM and IP/MPLS, and scalability to support rapid growth. Combined with the industry-leading Alcatel 5620 Network Manager that provides multi-vendor, multi-technology management from network core to end user - including carrier-class IP management - Alcatel offers operators the ability to aggregate and consolidate traffic on a voice and data backbone.

"Alcatel is ideally positioned to help mobile operators as they plan their network evolution in this extremely dynamic and competitive industry," said Etienne Fouques, president of Alcatel's carrier networking activities. "Our global leadership in network management and multiprotocol, multiservice solutions enables Alcatel to provide future-proof, seamless integration that results in reduced total cost of ownership, which all operators consider paramount."

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