Fujitsu Wins Metro SONET Contract from Focal

Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc.nications Corp., a Chicago-based CLEC, has chosen <%=company%> (Richardson, TX) to provide SONET transmission equipment. Fujitsu is supplying its FLM lightwave multiplexers for Focal's nationwide voice and data metropolitan networks.

The three-year agreement supports Focal's plans to deploy service in 20 markets throughout the country by the end of 2000, encompassing 50 metropolitan statistical areas. Focal recently acquired a total of 10,800 miles of metro fiber in major cities across the U.S. The contract also covers advanced and next-generation solutions such as Fujitsu's Flash product family, which includes the FLASH150 ADX and FLASH600 ADX hybrid multiservice transmission systems. The FLASH-192 is Fujitsu's OC-192 SONET add/drop multiplexer that transmits voice and data signals at a rate of 10 Gbps, or the equivalent of more than 129,000 simultaneous telephone calls, over a single fiber.

Also available to Focal under the contract are Fujitsu's Factr (Fujitsu Access/Transport System) universal access platform, Flexr Plus element management software, and Flashwave Metro dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) system, which provides up to 40 Gbps capacity for metropolitan applications.

Edited by Kristin Keiser