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Huawei will supply OPTUS (Australia) with ADSL/ADSL2+ gear under a $75m contract. It will also supply Neuf Telecom (France) with its DSLAM-IP solution, called SmartAX MA5600. Huawei has also deployed DWDM systems in enviaM and Envia TEL companies, both are subsidiaries of the RWE group in Germany. COLT (UK) has deployed Huawei Quidway Router platforms to run Internet Access and IPVPN Corporate services.

Alvarion will expand Burkina Faso Onatel network with wireless broadband access under a $4m new contract.

Nortel is to supply a national converged Ethernet network to KPN (NL) for deploying triple-play services. It also provided VOIP solutions and global services to Adelphia (a MSO in the USA). Nortel will also supply its softswitch and media gateways to Rogers Communications (a MSO in Canada) to deploy a cable telephony solution.

Alcatel has received a multi-million dollar turnkey contract from Flag Telecom to build a new DWDM submarine cable system, called Falcon to link India and Egypt, and with multiple landings throughout the Gulf region. It has been awarded a $10m contract for Shanghai's new metro line.

Marconi has deployed its Multi-haul 3000 optical platform between Madrid and Barcelona for Telefonica.

Cisco and Italtel will provide an IP-based NGN infrastructure for multimedia services to Belgacom. Cisco is deploying its optical transport and SAN equipment in HP’s European data centers, and high-speed Internet access to Matav (Hungary).

Wave7 Optics has been selected by the government of Brazil for building a point-to-multipoint Ethernet FTTP network linking 48 municipalities in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.

Stratex has received an order from Neuf Telecom (France) to deploy wireless Ethernet interconnections to their core fiber network.

FlexLight Networks announced the deployment of its Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) solution for China Netcom to link 15 cities in the north of China.

Avici has been tapped by Telecom Italia demonstrate integrated IP/optical network.

Riverstone won GuiZhou ZunYi CATV ethernet contract to add business data services.

Tekelec won a new signaling five-year contract with SBC.

UTStarcom will supply DSLAM-IP solution to BSNL (India) for its national Internet backbone rollout.

Siemens has been tapped by Telemar (Brazil) to supply access and satellite equipment to expand VOIP services in Brazil.