Pierre Chaume, president of Alcatel-Lucent Mexico, stated, “To enable customers like Cablevision to manage this demand, innovations like our 100G transport technology can support a richer set of broadband services including Video on Demand, more HD channels, home connections at speeds up to 100 megabits per second, Voice over IP, and many others.”

For this project, Alcatel-Lucent is supplying Cablevision with the 100G next-generation coherent technology, supported by the 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS). Designed to address the booming demand for more bandwidth driven by video streaming, web applications and cloud services, Alcatel-Lucent 100G technology offers exceptional performance, resilience and reliability in existing and ‘greenfield’ optical transmission networks.