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property, plant and equipment<br />

8<br />

NETWORKS AND SERVICE PLATFORMS<br />

Outlet<br />

EBN<br />

Submarine cable<br />

Tat 14<br />

Hambourg<br />

USA<br />

North American<br />

Backbone Network<br />

Tat 14<br />

SMW 3<br />

Hanovre<br />

Berlin<br />

Bristol Londres<br />

Amsterdam<br />

Bude<br />

Leipzig<br />

Brighton Lille<br />

Dresde<br />

Dusseldorf<br />

Bruxelles<br />

Prague<br />

Francfort<br />

Saint Valery<br />

Dieppe<br />

en Caux<br />

Stuttgart Nuremberg<br />

Paris<br />

Penmarc'h<br />

Strasbourg<br />

Munich<br />

Bâle<br />

Zurich<br />

Varsovie<br />

Lyon<br />

Genève<br />

Milan<br />

Toulouse<br />

SAT-3/WASC/SAFE<br />

Africa/Asia<br />

SMW 3<br />

Middle East, Asia<br />

Lisbonne<br />

Madrid<br />

Barcelone<br />

ALPAL 2<br />

Nice<br />

Marseille<br />

8<br />

SMW 4<br />

Middle East, Asia<br />

European Express Network (EEN)<br />

At the end of <strong>2009</strong>, <strong>France</strong> <strong>Tele<strong>com</strong></strong>’s European Express<br />

Network connected 12 of Europe’s largest cities, including<br />

four in <strong>France</strong>, through interconnections with <strong>France</strong> <strong>Tele<strong>com</strong></strong><br />

partners’ and subsidiaries’ networks.<br />

The EEN will renew the EBN network on its strongest lines,<br />

meaning those with extremely high bandwidths, strong growth<br />

in traffi c and high demand for responsiveness. It is designed<br />

to support bandwidths of up to 40 Gbps per wavelength ,<br />

with a per-line capacity of up to 3.6 Tbps with no extra cables<br />

required. This network will be fully “transparent” starting in 2010,<br />

meaning that it will enable end-to-end transmission and direct<br />

management of wavelengths without electrical regeneration.<br />

This technology will make it possible to move to 100 Gbps<br />

per wavelength depending on standardization progress and<br />

changes in needs.<br />

North American Backbone Network<br />

In the United States, <strong>France</strong> <strong>Tele<strong>com</strong></strong> has a terrestrial network<br />

interconnected with the TAT-14 trans-Atlantic cable to transfer<br />

its Internet traffi c and meet its operator and business customers’<br />

demands. To provide this function and serve Open Transit<br />

International (OTI) points in the United States, <strong>France</strong> <strong>Tele<strong>com</strong></strong><br />

purchases transmission capacity from different operators.<br />

In addition, there is a WDM and SDH ring connecting the<br />

Tuckerton and Manasquan submarine cable stations and the<br />

OTI points in New York and Ashburn.<br />

<strong>2009</strong> REGISTRATION DOCUMENT / FRANCE TELECOM<br />

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