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Article: AT&T Marks Another Milestone in Intelligent Optical Network Deployment Efforts; Global Carrier Selects Siemens Optical Transport Solution.
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- November 17, 2003
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BEDMINSTER, N.J., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T took another step toward its vision of an all-optical network as it signed a contractual agreement to begin testing a Siemens next-generation optical transport solution for use on high-capacity routes in its network. AT&T Labs and AT&T network engineers are working with Siemens personnel to assess the Siemens SURPASS(R) hiT 7500 operation with already-installed intelligent optical switches and other network elements before the units' planned deployment in AT&T's network in the first half of 2004.
"AT&T aims to evolve to one global network using Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) on an optical backbone because our ...