Internet speeds increased by Alcatel-Lucent and Go

GO will be using state-of-the-art fibre and coppoer-based access technologies by Alcatel-Lucent that will increase speeds and bandwidth cost-effectively to suit increasing capacity demands for peer-to-peer social networking, online video sharing and video gaming.

“We are committed to address our customers’ needs for higher bandwidth, faster speeds and enhanced reliability while reusing much of our existing infrastructure, helping reduce our investment costs. Alcatel-Lucent’s expertise is helping us to modernize today’s network with tomorrow’s capabilities,” said Michael Mertsch, Chief Technical Officer at GO.

With the ISAM product family, GO would support a mix of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) and fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) deployment models, giving them enormous flexibility to choose the quickest, most cost-effective way to meet subscribers’ broadband needs.

As a worldwide leader in the deployment of GPON technology, Alcatel-Lucent have been involved in more than 100 FTTH – over 85 of which were based on GPON in numerous operators, utility companies and municipalities around the world.

“Because widespread installation of fibre is a lengthy process, service providers need additional technology options for delivering high-performance bandwidth in a shorter time-frame. GO will be able to make its service offerings even more attractive and competitive, very quickly while making the best use of its existing investments,” said Gianluca Baini, president Mediterranean Customer Unit at Alcatel-Lucent.

The new project is expected to strengthen cooperation between Alcatel-Lucent and GO that has already deployed Alcatel-Lucent’s access, optical, mobile and wireless transport solutions. Alcatel-Lucent has supplied more than half of the VDSL2 lines in the field today, worldwide.

Over the past 8 years, the company pioneered innovative approaches to allow operators to get the most out of their copper plant such as high-capacity VDSL platforms and VDSL2 Bonding deployments, both of which were market firsts.

More information on the technology can be found here:

http://www2.alcatel-lucent.com/hln/converged.php