Tunisie Telecom and Alcatel-Lucent to Extend Broadband Services

Tunis/Paris - Tunisie Telecom, a telecommunications provider in Tunisia, and Alcatel-Lucent have announced a three-year agreement to transform the carrier’s voice and data network, paving the way for ultra-broadband access services for residential and enterprise customers throughout Tunisia.

Tunisie Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) portfolio to upgrade tens of thousands of existing voice line to provide high-speed broadband using ADSL, VDSL and GPON technology.

The agreement follows the successful trial of VDSL2 Vectoring technology in December 2012, using Alcatel-Lucent's Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) 7302 platform running on Tunisie’s existing copper cable infrastructure. VDSL2 vectoring technology enables a smooth migration path towards 100 Mbps ultra-broadband that can support a wide range applications like video-on-demand and online gaming for consumers and secure point-to-point Ethernet services for enterprise.

Key Facts

• Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s 7302, 7330 and 7353 Intelligent Services Access Manager solutions, 5526 Access Management System, and customized street cabinets to provide both voice and ultra-broadband services to thousands of customers.


• This project forms part of Tunisie Telecom’s strategic plans to evolve its voice and data networks into a single IP infrastructure in order to provide customers with high quality voice calls, faster Internet access, and new services.


• VDSL2 is a key component of Alcatel-Lucent’s portfolio as it repositions as a specialist vendor of IP networking and ultra-broadband access technologies.