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Telecommunications BT signs remaining NGN contracts
Telecommunications BT signs remaining NGN contracts | BT signs remaining NGN contracts |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 07 March 2006 | |
  
Contract signings with the other four - Ciena, Huawei, Lucent and Siemens - were announced on 23 December. Alcatel and Cisco have been selected to supply metro nodes providing routing and signalling for 21CN's voice, data and video services. Cisco has also been selected to supply large scale routers providing high capacity connections between metro nodes. Ericsson has been selected in the i-node domain – in essence the intelligence that controls the services. Fujitsu will be provide the access technology which will link BT's existing network with the new 21CN. Paul Reynolds, BT Wholesale CEO, said: "The UK is the first country in the world to move its core telecommunications infrastructure to a next generation all-IP network. The industry worldwide is watching what we are doing very closely." Meryl Bushell, chief procurement officer for BT Group, said: "This concludes what has been one of the largest single procurement programmes ever undertaken in the communications industry worldwide." |
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