SEPTEMBER 4, 2008 -- Nortel (search for Nortel) today announced that Bell Canada and Alaska Communications Systems have selected its 40G optical capabilities.
Bell Canada says it is using Nortel's 40G Adaptive Optical Engine to transport four times the current network bandwidth within its Montreal-New York, Toronto-Chicago, and Toronto-Montreal traffic corridors. This investment gives Bell more bandwidth in its backbone network, ensuring support for more customers and higher access speeds down the road, say company representatives.
"With Nortel's 40G solution as part of our network backbone, we continue to expand the leading-edge technology that allows us to deliver a robust Internet experience to Canadian consumers and businesses," notes Kevin Crull, president of Bell Residential Services. Bell Canada is Nortel's first Canadian customer to deploy its 40G capabilities.
Meanwhile, Alaska's leading integrated telecommunications company, Alaska Communications Systems, confirms that Nortel will provide a 40G optical network for the terrestrial portion of an undersea fiber-optic cable that connects Alaska to the lower 48 states through Oregon. The carrier says Nortel's 40G system allows it to support such bandwidth-intensive applications as Internet video, social networking sites, and advanced business services.
"At ACS, we are focused on serving the fast growing wireline/wireless data and enterprise markets and see significant annual bandwidth growth rates," reports Anand Vadapalli, ACS senior vice president of network and IT. "With Nortel, we are furthering our commitment to provide reliable and high-bandwidth enterprise services, consistent with our plans to have the Alaska-Oregon network up and running by the end of 2008 and available for commercial service very early in 2009."
Nortel says its technology enables an easy upgrade of existing 10G networks to 40G through simple plug-and-play components. (See " Nortel unveils 40/100G optical system, announces new customers.") Among the key firsts of this platform are a new modulation scheme, Dual Polarization Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (search for ) and a coherent detection technology that allows 40G operation over a 10G network. In addition, says the company, advanced digital signal processing removes all compensation requirements from the network, along with their associated capital and operational expenditures.
The 40G/100G platform is built on the Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 and runs over the Nortel Common Photonic Layer line system, key products that enable the migration to a more agile, adaptive, all optical network, claims the company.
Earlier this summer, Nortel announced both Rascom and Southern Cross as 40G customers.
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