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Lucent Technologies to Build Advanced Optical Networks for China Unicom in Eight Provinces.

China Telecom, October, 2000

Lucent Technologies announced on September 27, 2000 that it has signed contracts worth US$14 million with China Unicorn to build high-capacity optical networks in eight provinces of China.

The eight provincial backbone networks are in Jilin, Hebei, Henan, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Hainan, and Guangxi. They will be linked with Unicom's national backbone network.

"With the high-speed, high-capacity networks we're providing, China Unicorn will be able to transmit a half million, one-page e-mails per second. This will enable China Unicom to offer its customers the most advanced, reliable communications networks available," said Chi Hung Lin, president of Lucent's optical networking group in China.

The optical networking equipment for the project,...

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