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VIENNA, Va. July 21, 2009 –LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:
ALU) dedicated to serving the U.S. government community, announced today
it had successfully completed the European Dense Wave Division Multiplexed –
Optical Transport Network (DWDM-OTN) for the U.S. Army.
This project, valued at more than $35 million, caps off a three and a half
year effort to design, deploy and system test an installation information
infrastructure in Europe that will link the forward-deployed soldiers to
worldwide Command and Control (C2) and information systems.
The project was managed by the U.S Army’s Product Manager Defense
Communications Systems Europe (PM DCS -E) located at Funari Barracks in
Mannheim, Germany. PM DCS-E is a subordinate organization to PM Network
Service Center (PM NSC) and Program Executive Office Enterprise Information
Systems (PEO EIS). The U.S. Army’s 5th Signal command will have
operations and maintenance responsibility for this new optical network in
Germany.
“We are always working to find new, better and more effective ways to give
the warfighter the best capabilities and solutions possible,” said LTC Joseph
Dupont. “As we continue to provide ‘Everything Over IP’ in Europe, we
needed a more robust network capable of supporting real time services and
unified capabilities such as Voice over IP, IP video streaming and
conferencing. DWDM provides that robust network.”
The DWDM-OTN Network project, awarded in the spring of 2006,
consists of three DWDM rings spanning some 2,100 kilometers connecting 15
access locations supporting Army installations throughout Germany, Italy and
Belgium. The U.S. Army selected the Alcatel-Lucent Metropolis Wavelength
Services Manager (WSM) for implementing the rings which can provide up to forty
10 Gbps (gigabits per second) of transmission capacity each.
“This project demonstrates our ability to deliver full-scale
communications solutions that include both products and multi-vendor network
integration services that meet our customers’ needs,” said Ron Iverson, CEO,
LGS. “We work in lock step with our customers throughout every phase of
the project to ensure the network not only meets, but exceeds their
expectations.”
LGS network integration team worked closely with the U.S. Army
program manager to design and implement the middleware portion of the transport
network, which provides Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) services.
The middleware system consists of MPLS/IP routers, and encryption devices
that connect I3MP, Army Communities of Interests (COINs) and Legacy networks to
the DWDM-OTN network. The middleware network allows the Army to
consolidate or eliminate legacy systems in the region and continue the
transformation from a TDM to IP network centric architecture.
LGS responsibilities also included designing and implementing a
state-of-the-art secured out-of-band (OOB) management system that allows an
alternate capability to securely configure all OTN network elements,
troubleshoot and resolve network problems.
About LGS
LGS, a subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, designs and delivers Transformed
Communications and R&D-based technology solutions to the U.S. government
community. Leveraging the world-class R&D of Alcatel-Lucent Bell
Labs, with global reach and expertise, LGS challenges itself to solve the
unsolvable and deliver secure, reliable, standards-based solutions to its
customers. LGS, is headquartered in Vienna, Va., in the US and with
offices in Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey and North Carolina. For more
information about LGS visit
www.LGSinnovations.com.
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