Verizon Business Chooses Nortel Equipment for Pan-European Ultra-Long
Haul Optical Network
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - November 15, 2007) - Starting
in 2008, Verizon Business will be even better positioned to deliver
network capacity across Europe for high-bandwidth applications like
video and advanced business services with an optical network
supported by Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(NYSE: NT) equipment. The equipment
purchase supports 10G services as well as emerging 40G services and
will allow Verizon(2) Business to deliver greater capacity to its
large enterprise customers to meet their increasing bandwidth
requirements.
The ultra long haul (ULH) optical network will carry a large portion
of the Verizon Business European network traffic and will be deployed
across multiple countries including the United Kingdom, France,
Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. In addition, the
next-generation, ultra-long haul optical network allows Verizon
Business to meet the growing bandwidth demand while simplifying
network operations.
"Verizon Business has taken a bold, forward-looking approach to
building out its network," said Philippe Morin, president, Metro
Ethernet Networks, Nortel. "It provides the ability to deliver the
bandwidth capacity that service providers and businesses require
today and the critical ability to evolve seamlessly to 40G when
needed. Of course the true beneficiaries are the end-users who will
be able to take advantage of future high-bandwidth services and
applications to meet their growing business needs throughout Europe."
Nortel Global Services is assisting with the deployment, providing
turn-key installation services for Verizon Business and will include
support for integration into existing management systems and Network
Operation Center facilities.
The Verizon Business optical network is based on the Optical
Multiservice Edge 6500, a next-generation optical convergence
platform. The solution allows service providers to deliver
high-growth, high-bandwidth broadband services with quickest time to
revenue and one of the lowest deployment and operational costs. The
solution also features Nortel's unique electronic Dynamically
Compensating Optics (eDCO), which simplifies networking by extending
40G wavelengths over thousands of kilometers without requiring
dispersion compensation modules, greatly simplifying the network.
Verizon Business is also using the Common Photonic Layer (CPL) which
enables the migration to a more agile, adaptive, all optical
intelligent network. Also part of the solution, Nortel's
Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexing (ROADM) technology
provides operational simplicity and network agility for the easy
addition and routing of new services, resulting in a more
cost-effective, reliable infrastructure. In addition, the Nortel
Optical Network Manager will provide the required operations
administration and management for the network, advanced network and
service management and network planning tools for end-to-end
wavelength layer management.
About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications
capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality
for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service
provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and
business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to
help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance
by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they
need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150
countries around the world. For more information, visit Nortel on the
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