Business & Technology Editors
MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2000
Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) and AMC Communications (AMC), a digital local exchange carrier (DLEC) based in New Orleans, La., today announced a $55 million agreement under which AMC will purchase Lucent's leading-edge data networking equipment to deliver the highest quality integrated Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services to its business customers.
Lucent will supply AMC with its revolutionary Internet Protocol (IP)-based PathStar(TM) Access Server and the recently launched DSL access concentrator, Stinger(TM). AMC will deploy the Lucent solution to deliver feature-rich voice services, as well as high-speed data and Internet access over DSL. This deployment will allow AMC to offer service in every one of the 37 local calling regions in the states of Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, Florida and Mississippi by the end of the year 2000.
"Lucent's DSL technology will allow AMC to offer multiple phone lines and high-speed Internet access simultaneously over a single copper pair," said Ashok Dhawan, general manager, Lucent Technologies InterNetworking Systems. "AMC will be able to cost-effectively provide a full range of high-quality, high-speed voice, data and Internet services to its customers."
"The combined PathStar(TM) and Stinger(TM) solution will enable us to take advantage of the exploding DSL opportunity," said Mike Henry, CEO of AMC Communications. "Lucent's solution will help us rapidly expand our network, from an initial five-state deployment to our eventual goal of covering every local calling region in 21 states across the United States."
AMC has filed to offer services out of 200 locations in five states and has already engineered an additional 600 locations with Lucent equipment for the future phases of network deployment.
The Lucent Solution
The Bell Labs-developed PathStar(TM) Access Server combines with Stinger(TM) and a variety of packet-based integrated access devices to deliver the most feature-rich, packet-based voice over DSL solution in the market today.
By integrating local loop termination, a Class 5 telephony system, a voice-over-IP gateway and an edge router into one single network element, PathStar(TM) significantly lowers costs, saves precious central office space and reduces the complexity of integrated data and voice over DSL service delivery.
Stinger(TM) delivers all flavors of DSL--ADSL, SDSL, HDSL2 and IDSL--from one single platform. Stinger(TM) leads the industry in scaleability, capacity and redundancy. With its Quality of Service (QoS) features, it also enables service providers to deliver differentiated classes of service to their customers.
AMC Communications
AMC Communications, headquartered in New Orleans, LA, is among a new breed of digital local exchange carriers (DLECs), that provide business voice and data bundled solutions. AMC is a voice over IP (VoIP) solutions provider that utilizes DSL technologies and unbundled network elements on the "last mile connection." AMC is currently offering services in Louisiana and Mississippi, with anticipated expansion into twenty-one states by the close of 2001. For more information on AMC, visit the company's web site at http://www.amccom.com.
Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit the company's web site at http://www.lucent.com
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