IP Communications

The Dell'Oro 1Q'08 access report stated that Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert) remains at the top in DSL, with 6.6 million DSL lines shipped in 1Q'08. It has a cumulative market share in DSL port shipments of more than 40 percent, more than three times that of its nearest competitor, and a worldwide installed base of 166 million DSL lines. This was announced by Alcatel-Lucent.

 

Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprise and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users.

 

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The Dell’Oro report also stated that Alcatel-Lucent is leading in the IP DSLAM (IP digital subscriber line access multiplexer) market as well with Q1 2008 market share of 33 percent. The runner up to Alcatel-Lucent has three folds less than the amount of high-speed DSL (VDSL) shipments in 1Q'08. Alcatel-Lucent had the biggest share in worldwide GPON port shipments too.

 

"Our leadership in IP DSLAMs and VDSL shipments as well as our ongoing DSL innovations, demonstrate that Alcatel-Lucent continues to be the leading vendor in fixed broadband access," says Luis Martinez Amago, president of Alcatel-Lucent's fixed access activities.

 

"With one out of three fixed broadband customers around the world served through an access network provided by Alcatel-Lucent, we are committed to support our customers' network transformation projects.”

 

The company has also deployed Smart DSL, for higher-speed bandwidth services over asymmetric DSL (ADSL) and VDSL lines. The Smart DSL technology allows operators to guarantee DSL line stability at bit rates that are typically as much as 30 percent higher than traditional methods, building on Alcatel-Lucent's Artificial Noise and Virtual Noise innovations.

 

Alcatel-Lucent's fixed broadband is built to a large extent on the Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) family, an IP access platform that supports a flexible mix of future-proof access technologies (xDSL, GPON, point-to-point fiber) and a variety of network topologies (central office as well as remote architectures).

 

More than 185 service providers around the world have already selected the ISAM platform. Alcatel-Lucent is engaged in over 80 FTTx projects worldwide, over 60 of which are with GPON. Service providers like Verizon and France Telecom (News - Alert) have adopted Alcatel-Lucent’s GPON solution.