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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 16, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 24
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Breaking News -
Networking:
Nortel Networks Enhances Optical
Enterprise Portfolio
Nortel Networks has enhanced its Optical Enterprise portfolio to help drive
measurable cost and performance improvements across enterprise IT networks.
Nortel Networks is also deploying Optical Enterprise solutions for the
University of Texas and the School District of Philadelphia.
Nortel Networks Optical Enterprise portfolio consists of Optical Ethernet,
Optical Storage Connectivity and Optical Network convergence solutions. Part
of Nortel Networks 'One network. A world of choice.' global enterprise vision,
these solutions are designed to help enterprises drive as much as a 25-percent
improvement in total cost of network ownership. They are also designed to
reduce network downtime by improving network resiliency and security.
The latest enhancements to Nortel Networks Optical Enterprise portfolio
include standards-compliant coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) on
Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 5000 Multiservice Platform, and Fiber
Availability Service.
With CWDM on OPTera Metro 5000, enterprises will be positioned to run their
private networks -- or networks from service providers -- more cost-
effectively by leveraging attributes similar to dense wavelength division
multiplexing (DWDM).
Fiber Availability Service is designed to help match enterprises with the
right type and amount of fiber to meet budgetary and other business
requirements. Available through Nortel Networks 'channel partners,' Fiber
Availability Service will provide enterprises with a complete market
assessment of fiber providers in their area to make finding dark fiber and
optical services quick and simple. This assessment will include: a list of
dark fiber and existing optical services; distance to the enterprise location
(in feet); fiber contacts; and pricing.
The School District of Philadelphia and University of Texas Optical
Enterprise
deployments will ultimately link multiple locations across geographically-
dispersed environments to improve communications and collaboration by sharing
resources and enhancing network capacity and performance.
The School District of Philadelphia is deploying a secure Optical Ethernet
solution -- including Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 3500 Multiservice Platform
with Resilient Packet Ring (RPR), Nortel Networks Passport 8600, and Nortel
Networks Contivity VPN (virtual private network) -- to improve performance of
education applications across more than 300 locations.
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) will leverage the security
and
resiliency of Nortel Networks Fiber Channel storage connectivity and Ethernet
connectivity solutions to help create a supercomputing 'grid' that will
ultimately link all computing resources across the UT Austin campus. UT Austin
is deploying Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 5200 Multiservice Platform, which
supports Fiber Channel, Ethernet and SONET over a simple, resilient and
scalable optical network.
With its vast experience in both the Optical and Enterprise markets, Nortel
Networks continues to bring cost-effective Optical Enterprise solutions to the
market, creating new revenue-generating opportunities for service providers
and cost-effective networks for enterprises. Nortel Networks was the global
market share leader in total optical transport in 2002, according to the
Dell'Oro Group. Nortel Networks also led key enterprise markets -- including
Layer 4-7 Fixed Ethernet Switching.
Nortel Networks uses this experience and strategic relationships with
leading
technology companies to provide simple, secure, scalable, end-to- end Optical
Enterprise solutions.
'One network. A world of choice.' is about raising the bar with a new level
of
customer and employee engagement where and how the network is accessed while
offering enterprises the power of choice in deployment options through
industry-leading solutions in IP (Internet Protocol) Telephony, applications,
data and optical networking.
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