The arrival of triple play is fundamentally changing the way you build your network, and the way services are experienced by your end users. According to Alcatel research, service requirements dictate that between 2008 and 2010, downstream bandwidths of 25 Mb/s to 60 Mb/s and upstream bandwidths of 5 Mb/s to 13 Mb/s will be required to give your customers the triple play experience they expect.

Key factors for determining these exact needs include a.o. the number of simultaneous HDTV channels, the demand for fast peer-to-peer multimedia connections and the guaranteed speed offered for gaming and file upload/download.

Regardless of how you forecast the impact of these drivers, to be successful you must develop a strategy to deploy the triple play services your customers are demanding, as well as invest in the related network infrastructure.

Why Alcatel?
With more than 100 million DSL lines shipped, Alcatel is the worldwide leader in DSL. Backed-up by its absolute thought and technology leadership in fixed broadband access, Alcatel has the right suite of products and solutions to help you deliver the bundle of new, compelling, revenue-generating services that puts the user at the heart of your services offering.

A key strategy - supporting the evolution towards this user-centric triple-play experience - includes the deployment of a fiber-to-the-most-economical-point network, allowing the optimal mix of access flavors (xDSL, GPON, WiMAX, ...) and topologies (central office as well as remote deployments) to cover 100% of your potential subscriber base with a competitive broadband access offering in the most cost-effective way.

Let’s briefly address the main technological components that support the realization of this broadband access strategy one by one:

Alcatel dominates the DSL market with a market-leading portfolio that empowers operators to deploy broadband services with extremely quick payback.

However, we are ready for the future of access too - by offering a fiber to the user (FTTU) solution that feeds the abovementioned appetite for more and more bandwidth. Alcatel’s FTTU solution delivers high-quality voice, interactive video (supporting hundreds of analog and digital channels), and Internet access at speeds up to 3,000 times faster than traditional dial-up modem schemes. All of this supported by the Alcatel Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) family, the industry's first IP Access Platform - which has already been deployed at more than 100 customers worldwide.

Complementary to the above, we provide a fixed-wireless broadband access solution as well. Alcatel’s WiMAX solution is one of the fastest alternative ways to bring the power of broadband to the people - from growing broadband economies to the core of our cities.

On top, our Multi-Service Access technology is ideally suited to bring a mix of narrowband and broadband services as close to the customer as possible too - allowing service providers with considerable revenues from (legacy) voice services to still transition to full broadband services offerings as well, at their own pace.

Last but not least, with a system able to manage 1,500,000 connections and subscribers and up to 510,000 nodes in a single domain, Alcatel is the clear industry leader in broadband network management (please keep current link).

In short, Alcatel offers you a complete solutions package, including professional services and integration... Straight from the world’s most experienced broadband company!