China Unicom Picks Alcatel-Lucent for GPON in 29 Provinces
China Unicom has selected Alcatel-Lucent for one of the largest fiber broadband access networks to date in China. China Unicom plans to extend its broadband access network with GPON technology in 29 provinces using Alcatel-Lucent’s 7360 Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) FX – the company’s highest capacity fiber access platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.
“This project represents another major milestone in the rapid expansion of broadband in China. It also demonstrates our strong and growing leadership position in the FTTx market as we help accelerate availability of superfast broadband throughout China,” stated Rajeev Singh-Molares, President, Asia-Pacific at Alcatel-Lucent. http://www.alcatel-lucent.com
Share this article
Help others discover this reporting.
Editorial responsibility
Staff
Editor & Publisher
Every article published by Converge Digest is researched, curated, fact-checked and editorially reviewed by Jim Carroll, Editor & Publisher. AI-assisted drafting may be used to accelerate production, but all content is reviewed, refined and approved prior to publication.
You just read about Alcatel-Lucent. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Alcatel built Fixed, mobile, optical and enterprise telecom equipment. What became of it?
Alcatel brought Fixed, mobile, optical and enterprise telecom equipment to Telecom. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its merger with Alcatel-Lucent for US$13.4B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Alcatel-Lucent today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
You just read about GPON. Here is what it replaced:
APON / BPON served 1998–2000. What ultimately replaced it?
APON / BPON early passive optical networks: one fiber from the central office fanned out through unpowered splitters to homes, sharing ATM-cell (APON) or broadband (BPON) capacity by time-division. Its job passed to GPON — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
