JANET6 DWDM Transmission Equipment

The following suppliers have been shortlisted to enter the dialogue phase of the procurement:

Alcatel-Lucent

Ciena Communications

Fujitsu Services

Huawei Technologies

Nokia Siemens Networks

Virgin Media Business

JANET(UK) wishes to procure carrier-class DWDM transmission equipment and an associated NMS for the JANET backbone network. The equipment must be capable of supporting flexible, cost-effective, transparent, point-to-point transport of various client signals at rates up to and including 100Gbit/s with an upgrade capability path to support signal rates higher than 100Gbit/s (e.g. 400Gbit/s) in the future.

In addition to the supply of DWDM transmission equipment, JANET(UK) is seeking the following:

• Network design, delivery, installation, initial commissioning, technical training and documentation;
• specialist technical and operational support;
• maintenance, including technical support, field investigation and problem resolution, spares management and storage.

Prequalification questionnaire

Further information can be found in the Prequalification Questionnaire (PQQ) which is available electronically as a word file and an Adobe PDF file.

The steps and timetable for this procurement are as follows: