Cegelec, has been selected by the Technip group to supply an active transmission network for controlling and managing oil wells in Abu Dhabi on behalf of ADCO (Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations). The high-speed optical network manages all voice, image and data transmissions, which are crucial to the smooth running of the operation. Cegelec has been entrusted with the task of designing, creating, setting up and overseeing the 49 nodes of the existing optical network. The highly sensitive nature of the information to be transmitted over this network requires an extremely secure and reliable structure to be put into place.This contract comes after Cegelec became part of the Lucent Business Partner programme, which is designed to strengthen and expand Lucent’s sales channel.