Solutions to help your business Sign up for our newsletters Join our Community
  • Share

Nortel's optical customers

In addition to its new partnership with Microsoft that was announced today (see related story), Nortel also reeled in a few more customers for its optical equipment and announced its trial phase of its all-optical switch. Sprint’s Local Telephone Division, Call-Net Enterprises, Korea Telecom and Telecomm Developpement all plan to use Nortel’s metro optical and optical Ethernet equipment.

More on this Topic

Industry News

Blogs

Briefing Room

The photonic switch, the OPTera Connect PX, which is the result of Nortel’s acquisition of Xros, is MEMs-based and is currently in trials. The switch is run with OPTera Smart software that uses the automatic switch transport network standard and generalized MPLS (GMPLS).--Liane LaBarba, Telephony

Want to use this article? Click here for options!
© 2012 Penton Media Inc.

Learning Library

Featured Content

A time and money saving approach to fiber deployment

Service providers are under tremendous pressure to turn up new services faster then before and, at the same time, to do it at less expense - and intra-office fiber is one of the biggest challenges in terms of both cost and service turn-up.

The Latest

News

From the Blog

Briefingroom

Join the Discussion

Resources

Get more out of Connected Planet by visiting our related resources below:

Connected Planet highlights the next generation of service providers, as well as how their customers use services in new ways.

Subscribe Now

Back to Top