Viatel Names Bechtel Ring Three Project Manager

Long-distance service provider Viatel Inc. named Bechtel project manager for construction of the third ring of its Circe Pan-European Network. Circe Ring Three will encompass approximately 2,280 route-km and will link the German cities of Essen, Dortmund, Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Nurnberg, Munchen, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Koln, and Dusseldorf to Rings One and Two.

Bechtel Telecommunications has already completed construction of Circe Ring One and was recently named construction manager for Ring Two. Ring One is an approximately 1,800-km loop that links London, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, and Amiens. Ring Two, which links Amsterdam to Essen in Germany and Paris to Bar le Duc, Nancy, and Strasbourg in France, will be completed by July 1999.

The network will connect more than 30 major European cities in the UK, Belgium, France, Germany, and The Netherlands.