Fujitsu America Inc, Richardson, Texas has a two-year multimillion dollar contract with Bell Atlantic Network Services Inc to provide Sonet Synchronous Optical Network transmission products to the Bell Atlantic telephone companies – New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, Bell of Pennsylvania, Diamond State Telephone Company and the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Companies: Sonet is the international standard intended to provide an evolutionary path to a broadband telecommunications network and under terms of the contract, Fujitsu America will provide its FLM 50/150 Fibre Loop Multiplexer, a telephone exchange and loop multiplexer designed to transport DS1 and DS3 traffic over an OC1 or OC3 optical link – equivalent to 2,016 simultaneous telephone conversations.
