Optical Solutions for Service Providers

With services such as internet video, wireless broadband multimedia, residential broadcast TV and video on demand, video is becoming the compelling event that has service providers looking at how to scale and modernize their existing infrastructures to handle the massive increase in bandwidth requirements. With over 350,000 nodes deployed in wireline and wireless networks around the globe, Nortel optical solutions provide the benefits of Ethernet, TDM, and Optical convergence that leverage carrier-grade performance capabilities and enable a success-based network evolution for efficient transport of high speed data and video services.

With applications converging over IP, deployments are quickly migrating away from ATM and TDM network interfaces over to the more cost effective native Ethernet. To address these requirements, Nortel has added innovative Ethernet capabilities into its Optical networking solutions that support any-to-any services over a scalable, easy-to-provision, carrier-grade network. Being the first vendor to commercially deploy an Optical Ethernet solution in a service provider network, Nortel is uniquely positioned to understand and deliver packet-optimized optical solutions for service providers.

• Nortel has solved very complex optical transmission obstacles with creative uses of electronic and modem technology integrated into the equipment, making networking simple for customers. We delivered Adaptive All Optical Solutions at 10G that simplified networking by reducing engineering and removing compensation and amplifier equipment. Nortel's 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine takes this work one step further in delivering an economic, volume deployable 40G solution that offers all the capacity benefits of 40G, but behaves and performs like a 10G system. The same innovation is being leveraged to deliver a volume deployable 100G offering.
• Nortel's SONET/SDH Multiservice platforms provide the benefits of Ethernet, TDM, and WDM convergence and enable service providers to offer differentiated service level agreements to their customers.
• Nortel's unique electronic Dynamically Compensating Optics (eDCO) extend wavelengths over 2000km distances without costly regenerators, RAMAN amplification, and without dispersion compensation equipment and the associated additional amplifiers.
• With Optical Network Manager, Nortel brings circuit-based and packet-based worlds together in a single operations solution set that spans the complete portfolio for best-in-class service enablement.

• Nortel carrier grade optical solutions are deployed in 8 of the top 10 Service Providers in the world
• Over 60 Service Providers have launched optical broadband services using Nortel optical solutions delivering low latency and high resiliency to their customers' mission-critical applications
• Nortel Optical Solutions are deployed in more than 1000 customer networks in over 65 countries