Lucent installs optical MPEG-2 DTV system in China

17 Jun 2002

Lucent Technologies has installed the world's first optical MPEG-2 (Motion Picture Expert Group) digital television system in China's Zhejiang province. Lucent's Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) fiber technology and its MPEG-2 Digital Video System connect 12 cities in the province and allow for a single network to carry voice, video, and data while providing remote locations with video through the network. The network includes 14 Lucent MPEG-2 Digital Video System units and more than 20 SDH multiplexing units.