Alcatel-Lucent and Tunisie Telecom, the leading telecommunications provider in Tunisia, have announced a three-year agreement to transform the carrier’s voice and data network, paving the way for ultra-broadband access services for residential and enterprise customers throughout Tunisia.
Tunisie Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s market-leading Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) portfolio to upgrade tens of thousands of existing voice line to provide high-speed broadband using ADSL, VDSL and GPON technology.
The agreement follows the successful trial of VDSL2 Vectoring technology in December 2012, using Alcatel-Lucent’s Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) 7302 platform running on Tunisie’s existing copper cable infrastructure.
VDSL2 vectoring technology enables a smooth migration path towards 100Mbps ultra-broadband that can support a wide range of applications like video-on-demand and online gaming for consumers and secure point-to-point Ethernet services for enterprise.
Tunisie Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s 7302, 7330 and 7353 Intelligent Services Access Manager solutions, 5526 Access Management System, and customised street cabinets to provide both voice and ultra-broadband services to thousands of customers
This project forms part of Tunisie Telecom’s strategic plans to evolve its voice and data networks into a single IP infrastructure in order to provide customers with high quality voice calls, faster Internet access, and new services
VDSL2 is a key component of Alcatel-Lucent’s portfolio as it repositions as a specialist vendor of IP Networking and Ultra-Broadband Access technologies as part of The Shift Plan.
“We were looking for a comprehensive technology solution that would allow us to reinforce our position as the leader in providing high-speed, high-quality voice and broadband services in Tunisia. The trial in late 2012 demonstrated to us Alcatel-Lucent had the technology and expertise to achieve our immediate goals and support our longer-term plans in the most timely and cost efficient way,” says Nizar Bouguila, chief technology officer of Tunisie Telecom.
“Tunisie Telecom is a longstanding customer and we have worked very closely together to shape and evolve the network to the next level. This three-year agreement underscores the confidence Tunisie has in our VDSL2 and GPON technology and ability to help provide customers with the fastest broadband speeds possible now and in the future,” says Faiçal Haffoudhi, country senior officer of Alcatel-Lucent Tunisia.
