Fixed vendor orders

Space Systems/Loral received an order from ICO Satellite Management for the design and construction of a geostationary Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) satellite.

Alvarion has received an order for a large-scale BreezeMA 3500 system to be deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming year for Microcom.

Flarion and Siemens are expected to win their first joint deal with EuroTel Bratislava (Slovakia).

Cisco has deployed its Cisco 12000 Series Router to enhance Hutchison Australia 's existing Gigabit Ethernet core, packet-based data network.

Alcatel has gained another DSL customer with Ventelo, an emerging alternate carrier operating in Sweden and Norway. It will provide Ventelo with the Alcatel 5530 Network Analyzer, an advanced diagnostic software tool. It also announced Swisscom has ordered an IP broadband access network based on its Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) product family (the network will be used for triple play with IPTV).

Redback has received, from PowerCom Network Hong Kong, an order for its NG SmartEdge® Service Gateway platform.

Tekelec will deploy its SS7 signaling platform in US-based Fiber Network (IFN) network.

Mintera is providing Chunghwa Telecom with its MI-40000 optical transport platform for 40 Gbps DWDM pilot transmission initiative.

Lucent announced the successful completion of Telstra NG Voice Trial.

UTStarcom signed a contract in Bolivia with Cooperativa de Telefonos Automaticos La Paz (COTEL) for the deployment of its AN-2000 IP DSLAM solution.

Lucent and Juniper are named preferred supplier for new IP/MPLS Core for BT’s 21 CN network.

Alcatel, Cisco and Siemens are preferred suppliers for BT’s metro nodes to provide routing and signaling.

Fujitsu and Huawei will supply BT’s access domain.

Ericsson was selected to supply BT’s i-node domain, the intelligence that controls the services.

Huawei and Ciena were chosen to supply BT’s optical electronics in the transmission domain.