Mostelecom Picks AlcaLu

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 20:48

Alcatel-Lucent  today announced that Open Joint Stock Company “Mostelecom” (Mostelecom), an affiliate of NTK holding - a leading Russian cable broadcast television provider with more than three million subscribers in Moscow - has become the first company in Russia to select Alcatel-Lucent’s innovative converged IP/Optical backbone solution to cost effectively boost its network performance and offer a higher quality of experience to end users. Alcatel-Lucent’s Converged Backbone Transformation (CBT) solution allows service providers to cope with the explosive growth of video and other bandwidth-intensive applications such as video or file sharing, offer reliable high-speed Internet access over the Mostelecom network to the subscribers of NTK’s consumer brand OnLime, and facilitate the provisioning of advanced multimedia services such as interactive TV and video on demand. By optimizing its transport network with the Alcatel-Lucent’s solution, Mostelecom can also reduce its investments costs, address the rapid growth in traffic, and substantially cut operational and maintenance costs. Alcatel-Lucent