Nortel’s Optical Long Haul 1600 is an open, multiservice optical platform that offers multiservice, high capacity transport solutions that cost-effectively address the bandwidth demands of today’s and tomorrow’s networks on a single fiber pair. Designed to scale to 800 Gbps, the system is able to guarantee uncompromised reliability and performance of mission-critical video, data and voice transport services. Further network cost reductions can be achieved by using the Optical Long Haul 1600 in conjunction with highly reliable DWDM optics in the Nortel Optical Cross Connect DX/HDX/HDXc and  Optical Multiservice Edge 6500  products.

• Open connectivity of wavelength services with the Optical Long Haul 1600 Wavelength Translator
• Service transparency and the ability to aggregate multiple independent low-speed channels with the Optical Long Haul 1600 Wavelength Combiner
• Carrier grade reliability with 99.999% availability and bit error rates better than 10(-15)
• Optical layer protection and restoration methods for enhanced network resiliency
• The ability to optically add/drop local traffic without terminating express channels
• Comprehensive optical layer network management capabilities with the Optical Network Manager which include end-to-end provisioning and troubleshooting tools for faster service delivery and improved network fault isolation and recovery