The Alcatel CIT unit of Alcatel Alsthom SA won an order worth $64m to supply and install Indonesia’s first fibre optic network: Alcatel and Alcatel Cable Contracting won the order in a tender by Indonesian operator PT Telkom for a network linking Jakarta to the island of Bali; the network consists of 940 miles of fibre optic cable on land and underwater, carrying 32,000 telephone channels and using Synchronous Digital Hierarchy for transmission of voice, data and image.
