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Alcatel-Lucent to deploy Urban WiFi network in Italy
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Alcatel-Lucent announced that will supply and integrate the first urban WiFi network in Trento, Italy. This broadband WiFi wireless access network will help bridge the digital divide, bringing high-speed Internet access even to small areas still not reached by DSL. This network will enable Trentino province to provide municipalities, businesses of all sizes and residential users with broadband wireless access to the Internet as well as voice services. It will serve public sites in the area, including schools, businesses and individual households, and will deliver broadband services to inhabitants and visitors. 
"Trentino regards innovation as one of the mainstays on which to base its own territorial policies development, by focusing on opening to other realities on a European scale, and on its network development in order to achieve competitiveness, social, economical and cultural growth," Mr Lorenzo Dellai, Province of Trento's President, has emphasized. "The network Alcatel-Lucent is deploying will provide 1,600 WiFi access points and will be one of the largest in Italy and all of Europe."
Alcatel-Lucent will provide the engineering, integration, installation and commissioning and will be in charge of the operation, monitoring and maintenance of the WiFi network, which will employ an existing Alcatel-Lucent optical backbone network. In addition it will provide its Alcatel-Lucent 9500 MXC, a new generation of digital, medium-to-high-capacity, point-to-point microwave radio. "This complex and sophisticated project is further proof of our global track-record for network and services integration," said Olivier Picard, President of Alcatel-Lucent's Europe and South activities. "This success confirms Alcatel-Lucent's leading position as a turnkey provider of broadband access solutions helping bridge the digital divide. This contract demonstrates the value of our Broadband for All vision." Source: Alcatel-Lucent |
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