AOL Time Warner Telecom to double capacity
  01/25/2001 1:21:00am Albuquerque, Nm
  Dustin D. Brand; Owner AMO

In a deal worth $100 Million with Lucent, AOL Time Warner is set to upgrade it's optics.   The Time Warner Telecom Network is a Competetive Local Exchange Carrier, and is only 47.5% owned by AOL Time Warner. AOLTW however, has made plans to use the Network for streaming media demands, in which only an optic network and added bandwidth will do. Lucent Technologies, Inc. signed a deal worth $100 Million dollars last week to deploy Lucents latest in optic networking technology across the Littleton, Colorodo based Time Warner Telecoms western regional network.

  These new optics use Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (see Alcatel) which is the latest in fiber optics bandwidth allowing 800 Gbits/sec and upgradeable to 1.6 TerraBits/sec.

  Time Warner Telecom has said it plans to apply much of the new optics to the recently acquired GST Telecommunications for $690 Million, which went backrupt. Lucent plans on completeing deployment of the new Network by the middle of this year.