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http://www.lecommercedulevant.com/node/17947
Translation:
Broadband: Ericsson wins tender for second phase of the optical fiber
The Swedish company Ericsson has won the tender of the Ministry of Telecommunications for the supply and installation of equipment for operating the fiber optic network Lebanese * DWDM multiplexers, with an offer to 6.3 million dollars.
This offer is the lowest among the four companies remained in contention. The French equipment supplier Alcatel-Lucent's proposed $ 10.6 million, the Chinese company Huawei, 14.2 million, and the Finnish-German Nokia-Siemens $ 10.1 million.
Case manager at Ericsson, Dirgham Mohammad, told the Commerce du Levant that his company's offer is attractive because "we made the strategic decision to turn Lebanon into a platform driver in the deployment of next generation DWDM multiplexers Middle East. " In addition, the company feared the aggressive bids of competitors, including China and India.
According to a ministry statement, seven companies responded to the call for tenders launched in late 2010. Two were automatically rejected because their records were incomplete and it is the American Indian and Tellabs UTL. Of the five remaining candidates, one presented by the Chinese company ZTE has been rejected by the committee to open the folds because he did not meet the specifications.
This award represents the second phase of deployment of the Internet at high speed in Lebanon, which should allow users to enjoy a connection speed of 15 megabits cons up today around 1 Mb / s (often theory). The first phase had led to the award of the construction of fiber optic network in September 2010 to a consortium of French telecoms equipment supplier Alcatel-Lucent American-Lebanese society and civil engineering CET, to 40 million dollars.
* DWDM Multiplexer is a device that allows signals to pass several different wavelength on a single optical fiber, mixing at the entrance using a multiplexer (MUX), and separating them to output using a demultiplexer.