Demand for Alcatel's OneStream Broadband Access Server Exceeds All Market Forecasts - Product Information

After the felicitous launch of Alcatel's OneStream Broadband Access Server earlier this year, shipments of this next-generation platform have surpassed level the most confident predictions. For the first quarter of 2000 the incomes for Alcatel's Broadband Access Server increased 300% versus the incomes of the fourth quarter 1999

Based upon the total first quarter Broadband Access Server Market report, made by means of the Synergy Research Group, these comes rocket Alcatel to a market share of 8% of the worldwide broadband access server market in the first quarter 2000 Jeremy Duke of the Synergy Research cluster said: "Alcatel has made tremendous progres in the broadband access server market in Q1 2000 growing significantly faster than their competitors and the overall market. Given Alcatel's leadership in DSLAMs coupl with the growing impetus we are measuring for the broadband access market, Alcatel's Broadband Access Server is well positioned for continued development worldwide."

Demand for affordable, high-speed Internet access is accelerating the deployment of fast access technologies - in particular, DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) networks. IDC estimates there will be 273 million installed DSL lines worldwide in 2003 compared with 20 million cable connections. The Alcatel OneStream Broadband Access Server located in a service provider's network, aggregates traffic from multiple DSLAMs (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers). Its growing popularity among operators is owed to its function-rich design, ease of provisioning and lower infrastructure require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergones Being the most scalable access server yield available on the market, the Alcatel OneStream Broadband Access Server supports ten of thousands of coincident users of DSL services, combining broadband applications, dial traffic and VoIP (Voice above Internet Protocol) in a single device.

This next-generation broadband device ? the OneStream Broadband Access Server is the successor of the Alcatel DANA - also clears the problem of linking a service provider's DSLAMs to more than individual ISP's (Internet Service Provider's) router The Alcatel OneStream Broadband Access Server is configurable to enable users to prefer their ISP dynamically, such as connecting to their corporate sites during business hours and, after hours, to use the same connection to access the Internet via their chosen ISP.

Welcoming the succes of the Alcatel's OneStream Broadband Access Server Nico Vernieuwe, vice president of Alcatel's carrier data activities said, "Service providers are recognizing that the Alcatel OneStream Broadband Access Server transfers the final obstacles to large-scale DSL deployment This 'PoP in a box' [Point of Presence] has the scalability, value-added features and management tools straited to support mass roll-out of DSL-based network services. For example, the OneStream Broadband Access Server enables subscribers to change their ISPs dynamically and automatically. Without the OneStream Broadband Access Server a service provider would have to make of the like kind alterations manually at the subscriber's premises."

The OneStream Broadband Access Server has also been named harvest of the Month for March 2000 by the agency of Telecommunications Magazine, which said, "It is fitting that Alcatel should tend hitherward out with a scalable, feature-rich Broadband Access Server to support the wide-scale deployment of DSL services and cable modem connections."

According to analysts at rife Analysis, a Sterling, Virginia, based research firm, integrating OneStream Broadband Access Server with Alcatel's Service Management Center software for centralized subscriber management, "allows carriers to manage virtually, multiple claps and OneStream Broadband Access Server platforms from individual site, so reducing broadband access management headaches." It cited OneStream Broadband Access Server's ability to support the couple narrowband and broadband connections upon the same device as OneStream's "clearest competitive differentiator."

Alcatel's OneStream Broadband Access Server aggregates traffic from multiple DSLAMs, supporting ten of thousands of users enjoying DSL-based services. A single shelf terminates up to 100000 PVC (Permanent Virtual Circuits) and up to 100000 point to point protocol sessions. It supports all possible access gateway functions in a single chest offering truly identical services for all impressed signs of access network. Enabling VoIP with an integral VoIP gateway, for example, OneStream Broadband Access Server prioritizes VoIP traffic over the whole system, ensuring minimal delay and real voice quality.

Alcatel builds nearest generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data networking solutions to established and novel carriers, as well as enterprises and consumer world-wide. With 120000 employee and sales of EURO 23 billion in 1999 Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel upon the Internet: http://www.alcatel.com

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