French equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent (Alca-Lu) has announced that it has been contracted by Telekom Austria to deploy its triple-play service delivery architecture, bringing smaller communities the same triple-play services today provided to customers in larger metropolitan areas.

Alca-Lu’s solution will provide Telekom Austria with the bandwidth, scale and service awareness required to support the growing market for more personalised broadband services such as ‘aon TV’, the service provider’s IPTV offering.

Walter Goldenits, CTO at Telekom Austria, said: ‘The rollout of the second mile ethernet aggregation network with Alca-Lu service routers enables us to confidently and economically offer converged data, voice and video applications throughout the whole country, to the furthest reaches of the network, over a single and homogeneous platform.’