Lucent Technologies Selected as Primary Supplier for Interloop's End-to-End VoDSL Solution

Strategic Insights -

Interloop, a Miami-based integrated communications provider, has chosen Lucent Technologies as its primary supplier for a comprehensive voice over digital subscriber line (VoDSL) solution. This selection is part of Interloop's Florida network expansion plans, which aim to offer bundled local, long distance, and high-speed Internet services to business and residential customers in South Florida. The multi-million dollar deal also includes a network management system and professional installation services.

Key Takeaways:

  • Interloop will deploy Lucent's Stinger DSL Access Concentrator platform, which enables service providers to deliver differentiated classes of service to their customers.
  • The Stinger DSLAM delivers all flavors of DSL from a single platform, leading the industry in scalability, capacity, and redundancy.
  • Interloop will use Lucent's 7R/E NOW solution, which provides the full range of public network voice features and packet services such as VoDSL.
  • Lucent's PSAX 2300 and PSAX 600 wide area access products will connect low-speed devices onto a high-speed ATM infrastructure, making traffic flow across the network more efficient.
  • The PSAX products deliver end-to-end QoS capabilities, enabling carriers to offer differentiated levels of service according to business needs.
  • Interloop's network will be managed by Lucent's Navis network management system, and professional installation services will be provided by Lucent's NetworkCare Professional Services organization.
  • Interloop plans to expand its operations throughout Florida and into eight additional southern states later this year, and throughout the Eastern U.S. in 2001.
  • Ariel Musibay, executive vice president - operations for Interloop, stated that Lucent's voice over DSL solution will enable Interloop to provide its residential and small business customers with the connection speeds and wide range of services that were previously only affordable to large businesses.
  • Bruce Claar, vice president of engineering for Interloop, said that Stinger's scalability, capacity, and redundancy will enable Interloop to build the most advanced network possible in the markets it chooses to serve.

Statistics:

  • The multi-million dollar deal includes Jetstream's CPX-1000 broadband voice services platform.
  • Since Stinger's launch in September 1999, more than 70 service providers in a dozen countries have purchased the platform.
  • The Stinger DSLAM delivers all flavors of DSL from a single platform, and leads the industry in scalability, capacity, and redundancy.

Sources:

  • Business Wire, "Interloop Selects Lucent for End-to-End VoDSL Solution," May 11, 2000.
  • Lucent Technologies, "Stinger DSL Access Concentrator," 2000.
  • Lucent Technologies, "7R/E NOW Solution," 2000.
  • Lucent Technologies, "PSAX 2300 and PSAX 600 Wide Area Access Products," 2000.
  • Interloop, Inc., "About Interloop," 2000.
  • Lucent Technologies, "Lucent Technologies Announces 7R/E NOW," September 1999.