14 DAY TRIAL // Telef?nica Deutschland is upgrading its network into one of the largest alternative broadband infrastructures on the German market. To this end, Telef?nica has awarded Siemens Communications a contract to expand its inner-core backbone.
Siemens has supplied M- and T-series routers from Juniper Networks and Metro Ethernet switches from Extreme Networks and integrated them in the carrier's backbone network at the locations Frankfurt, Berlin and D?sseldorf. Siemens will also maintain a service organization to support Telef?nica's network operation in ensuring the constant availability of the network.
Siemens and Juniper Networks integrated the new components into the network of Telef?nica Deutschland. The backbone network services have initially been contracted for three years. Juniper supplied the routing platforms and will be a partner to Siemens in the area of service. The new Metro Ethernet switches come from Siemens' partner Extreme Networks.
Telef?nica plans to supply more than 1,500 cities and towns with the high-speed Internet technology ADSL2+ by mid-2007, meaning that the company will reach around 60 percent of all German households. The company's platform is targeted primarily at Internet service providers and carriers that do not have a network of their own or lack full coverage in Germany, allowing them to offer their customers differentiated products in the fields of DSL, data and telephony services, and in the future also triple play or video on demand