Alcatel-Lucent has announced that it has been selected by RTE, the French public power transmission network operator, to deploy an additional several-thousand-kilometer fiber-optic network on RTE’s high-voltage transmission grid. This turnkey fiber-optic network, code-named ROSE 7 (Réseau Optique de SEcurité, or Optical Security Network), is the continuation of a project that began in 2004 with a 500 Km pilot project in Brittany which has grown to over 5,000 Km today.