Du selects Alcatel-Lucent for 100G optical network

Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Du to build the second phase of a high-speed 100G coherent optical transport network (OTN) throughout the UAE.

The new optical transport network will enable the UAE telco to dramatically boost the speed and capacity of its existing network, and thanks to the efficiency of OTN sub-wavelength grooming, it will support the booming explosion of data traffic generated by the proliferation of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets in the most economical way.

Du will use Alcatel-Lucent’s 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) to address the booming demand for high-bandwidth data services such as high-definition video streaming, next-generation mobile broadband applications and cloud services.

Network capacity and performance will be significantly boosted by taking advantage of unique Bell Labs silicon innovations to support data speeds of 100 gigabits-per-second on each of the 88 wavelengths.