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Lucent Technologies Strengthens Position in China's Digital Television Market

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Lucent Technologies has solidified its leading position in China's digital television market through recent sales of digital television (DTV) equipment to three provinces in China, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang. The company, through its Optical Networking Group and Lucent Digital Video, has provided DTV equipment to the Fujian Province Post and Telecom Administration, the Jiangxi Province Radio and Television Bureau, and the Wenzhou City Radio and Television Bureau, based in the Zhejiang province. This significant achievement reaffirms Lucent's market leadership position with the majority share of China's growing DTV build-out. The Lucent DTV equipment enables high-quality video to be passed through a network in an efficient, flexible manner, facilitating high-bandwidth data transmission.

Key Takeaways:

  • Lucent Technologies has sold digital television (DTV) equipment to three provinces in China, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang, solidifying its leading position in the market.
  • The combined forces of Lucent's Optical Networking Group and Lucent Digital Video have provided equipment to the Fujian Province Post and Telecom Administration, the Jiangxi Province Radio and Television Bureau, and the Wenzhou City Radio and Television Bureau, based in the Zhejiang province.
  • The sales comprise a $3.3 million contract from the Jiangxi Province Radio and Television Bureau, featuring 37 units of Lucent Digital Video's award-winning digital video encoder and decoder, the Lucent VideoStar system.
  • The Jiangxi network also includes 15 WaveStar Add/Drop Multiplexer (ADM) 16/1 multiplexing units, 8 Synchronous Line Multiplexer (SLM) units, 20 Lightwave Booster Amplifier (LBA) units, and 8 Intelligent Synchronous Multiplexer (ISM) units.
  • Lucent Digital Video's product line, whose products include the Lucent VideoStar system, covers a range of video transmission applications, including cable, wireless cable, fiber optic, and satellite back-hauling, Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS), and more.
  • Lucent's SDH architecture is used throughout China in national, provincial, city junction, and rural networks, and the Fujian, Jiangxi, and Wenzhou City systems will utilize ATM over STM-16 links running at 2.5 gigabits per second.
  • Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, designs, builds, and delivers networks, communications systems, data networking systems, business telephone systems, and microelectronic components.
  • Lucent Digital Video markets its digital video products to various applications worldwide.

Statistics:

  • The value of the contract with the Jiangxi Province Radio and Television Bureau is $3.3 million.
  • The Lucent VideoStar system features 37 units of digital video encoder and decoder.
  • The Jiangxi network includes 15 WaveStar Add/Drop Multiplexer (ADM) 16/1 multiplexing units.
  • The network spans 36 cities, making it the world's largest optical MPEG-2 network.
  • The network will utilize ATM over STM-16 links running at 2.5 gigabits per second.
  • Lucent Technologies has won an Engineering Emmy Award for its pioneering work in digital television.

Sources:

  • Lucent Technologies, "Lucent Furthers No. 1 Position in China's DTV Market With Sales to Fujian, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang Provinces"
  • Lucent Technologies, "Lucent Digital Video Web site at www.lucent.com/ldv"
  • Lucent Technologies, "Lucent's SDH products at www.lucent.com/netsys/opticalnet/"
  • Lucent Technologies, "Engineering Emmy Award in 1997 for its pioneering work in DTV as a member of the HDTV Grand Alliance"
  • Lucent Technologies, "Bell Labs research and development arm for the company"

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