ATLANTA - BellSouth is planning to expand the reach of its digital subscriber line services and to further upgrade its network backbone with gear from Alcatel and Redback.

Terms of the deal were not announced.

BellSouth is in the process of modernizing its network infrastructure to support more Internet Protocol-based technology. To help make DSL services available to more users, the company said it will use the Alcatel 7330 Dslam and Redback SmartEdge gateway to push up to 12 megabytes of information per second over a standard single copper phone line and 24 Mbps over a bonded pair of lines.

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