*Brutélé select Transmode and Arcadiz.

Transmode, the Optical Pioneer, and channel partner Arcadiz, today announced that Brutélé, the Belgian Cable TV operator, has successfully deployed the Transmode TS-Series C/DWDM metro networking platform to support its Triple Play services infrastructure.

The new Brutélé WDM network comprises of a network connecting Brutélé’s primary regions of Brussels and Charleroi, as well as its peer network in Liège and a metro network for the Brussels region.  The network is built using Transmode’s TS-Series C/DWDM platform and initially the network is used to transport Broadcast Video traffic.
 
Brutélé provide the full range of Triple Play services to residential customers within the Brussels area and French speaking region of Belgium and is currently undergoing a period of rapid expansion.  In addition to residential services, Brutélé provides services to both small and large enterprise customers such as high-speed broadband, Ethernet Private Lines, Gigabit Ethernet and VPN services.

“With the Transmode TS-Series Brutélé acquires the ideal platform for both its residential broadband infrastructure and its high capacity services to large enterprises,” said Jean-Michel Adant, Brutélé’s Chief Executive Officer.  “We undertook a rigorous selection procedure and selected Transmode and Arcadiz for the outstanding quality and price/performance ratio of the platform and the local support services.”

The TS-Series deployment provides Brutélé with a flexible and scalable platform supporting multi-protocol 2.5G and 10G Transponders and Hi-Speed and Low-Speed Muxponder units.  Initially supporting low-cost CWDM wavelengths, the system has the scalability to extend to additional CWDM and DWDM wavelengths in service.  Using patented Intelligent WDM (iWDM) protocol recognition and functionality such as SFP/XFP pluggable optics, the TS-Series provides network operators and enterprises with a true plug-and-play experience, greatly reducing network and service turn up times, cost and complexity.
 
“In addition to local 24/7 multi-lingual support services, Arcadiz were able to provide Brutélé with additional integration and laboratory testing capabilities,” said Jos Vermeylen, Arcadiz’s Managing Director. “A key element was the network management integration where our engineers worked closely with the Brutélé engineers to ensure a swift introduction of the new platform into the network.”

“We are delighted to be jointly announcing this important customer win with Arcadiz today,” said Björn Andersson, Transmode’s Vice President of Sales.  “Cable TV operators, such as Brutélé, have a broad range of service and capacity requirements, especially as they expand into business services.  Transmode and our local and highly experienced partners such as Arcadiz are ideally positioned to support these needs in the most economic manner.”

About Brutélé
Brutélé, a Belgian leading cable operator located in the Wallonia-Brussels community headquartered in Brussels (Belgium) counts for about 300,000 households. It manages both the HFC (Hybrid Fiber Coax) network and the services.

Brutélé  has also developed high skilled competence to maintain and deploy its constantly growing modernized network comprising a large fibre optics infrastructure (via its D(C)WDM, SDH, GBE backbone).

Brutélé is then a true multimedia operator providing telecommunication services to individuals as well as to businesses: High Speed  Internet, rental of leased lines, Intranet, VPN, Metro Ethernet, etc.

At the present time, Brutélé counts for more than 40.000 Residential Internet subscribers and more than 1000 point-to-point optical digital connections  ranging from 2 Mbps up to 2.5 Gbps.

Brutélé did successfully launch end of last year a triple play offer (Digital TV – Telephony – High Speed Internet Access) for its subscribers under the brand-name VOO.

For more information about Brutélé, please visit: http://www.brutele.be/

About Arcadiz
Arcadiz Telecom, a privately held company headquartered in Leuven (Belgium), specializes in high-end services and customized systems design for the paneuropean and Central-Asian carrier, cellular and ISP marketplace. Arcadiz Telecom builds upon years of industry and engineering experience, network design expertise, and long-standing partnership relations with leading suppliers allowing to develop best-of-class solutions that meet even the most demanding customer needs.

Arcadiz Telecom offers a broad range of advanced solutions, ranging from fiber optic transmission solutions (including CWDM, DWDM, SDH and Metro-Ethernet solutions), over UMTS-related solutions for mobile operators to digital broadcast video transmission (DVB) for cable operators and off-network solutions for international operating carriers. Arcadiz Telecom customers include KPN, Belgacom Mobile, Verizon, Casema, Brutélé, M-link (Orascom), Kazakh Telecom, Kar-Tel, etc.

For more information about Arcadiz Telecom, please visit http://www.arcadiz.com

About Transmode
Transmode is a Pioneer in Optical Networking.  Innovations such as intelligent WDM (iWDM), which dramatically lowers operational cost, and unamplified DWDM, which reduces network CAPEX and complexity, have contributed to success at a global level, with a customer base of more than 100 network operators, service providers, enterprises and public institutions across Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Transmode is the only company with the full spectrum of Optical Networking solutions based on WDM, designed to cater for the needs of Network Operators and Enterprises alike without compromising on functionality or cost-efficiency.  Transmode’s product portfolio addresses Optical Networking requirements from regional networks, through metro core and access networks, all the way down to the customer premises.

For more information about Transmode, please visit http://www.transmode.com

For more information please contact:

Jon Baldry                                                                             Marc Vandeputte
Technical Marketing Manager                                           Marketing & Business Development Manager
Transmode                                                                           Arcadiz Telecom
T +44 1189 497 596                                                            T+32 16 392 692
Email: jon.baldry@transmode.com                                  Email: marc.vandeputte@arcadiz.com