Lucent Technologies has been awarded a multimillion dollar contract with KPN Mobile The Netherlands to supply ATM infrastructure and software to support the operator's 3G UMTS network.
The vendor will be providing equipment to build KPN Mobile's Universal Mobile Transport Network (UMTN), its core ATM aggregation network for 3G UMTS.
Lucent will deploy its GX 550 Multiservice WAN Switch at six locations across the
Netherlands to develop a high-speed backbone network that is able to support ATM,
frame relay and IP.
KPN Mobile will manage the ATM network with the Lucent NavisCore Element Management System and NavisXtend Fault Server.
