Brilliant Telecommunications and Alcatel-Lucent Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Cost-Effective Femtocell Solution
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Enhances bandwidth availability for high-bandwidth mobile communication and improved signal coverage for the residential market
Campbell, Calif. - November 16, 2009 - Brilliant Telecommunications, Inc., a leading supplier of next-generation network synchronization equipment and solutions, announced a strategic partnership with Alcatel-Lucent to supply an accurate, end-to-end network synchronization solution for Alcatel-Lucent's UMTS Femto BSR product. This partnership includes Brilliant's femtocell synchronization technologies as well as a service agreement to support the increasing deployment of these technologies across Alcatel-Lucent's business units. The relationship will provide significant time-to-market benefits to Alcatel-Lucent's customers as femtocell adoption rates continue to grow.
Femtocells are reduced-footprint basestations that provide high-bandwidth mobile communication and improved signal coverage for the residential market. Like macro basestations, femtocells are also prone to radio interference issues resulting from poor frequency and phase synchronization between various macro and femto devices in the network. The lack of synchronization in the network ultimately results in slower handoffs, frequent dropped calls during handoffs, and poor voice quality. Brilliant's end-to-end timing solution for femtocells consists of Zurich Z-1000 timing servers delivering timing packets to Brilliant's FemtoTime timing client in the Femto BSR. Scalable to support very large deployments, the FemtoTime timing client provides superior synchronization for femtocells across ADSL and IP networks even under very harsh network conditions.
"We are pleased that Alcatel-Lucent has chosen Brilliant's end-to-end network synchronization solution for their Femto BSR product," said Dr. Charles Barry, president and CEO, Brilliant Telecommunications. "The femtocell market is highly cost-conscious and Brilliant is constantly striving to meet both the synchronization performance and the cost-targets set by the industry."
About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry. With operations in more than 130 countries and the most experienced global services organization in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with a global reach. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 16.98 billion in 2008 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: www.alcatel-lucent.com
About Brilliant Telecommunications
Founded in 2004, Brilliant Telecommunications designs, develops and distributes a family of network timing, management and synchronization solutions, including carrier-class NTP and PTP servers, Primary Reference Sources (PRS), and Building Integrated Timing Supplies (BITS). These highly accurate end-to-end timing network solutions deliver SLA monitoring and management capabilities, in addition to providing timing and synchronization to the most time-sensitive applications in legacy and next-generation IP networks. For more information please visit BrilliantTelecom.com
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