MURRAY HILL, N.J., March 1 -- Sichuan Telecom, China's leading provider of telecommunications services in Sichuan province, has purchased Lucent's optical transport system and switch, the LambdaUnite MultiService Switch (MSS), as part of a multimillion dollar optical contract. Sichuan Telecom will deploy LambdaUnite MSS, plus Lucent's WaveStar TDM 10G and the WaveStar ADM 16/1, to build a high-speed optical network in the Chengdu metropolitan area. The network will support the growing voice and data traffic of the more than 90 million people of Sichuan province. Sichuan Telecom has already started deploying the equipment and expects the network to be completed by the end of this month.