Long Distance Australian Trial Demonstrates Cost-effective Ultra
High-speed Solution
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - August 04, 2009) - Telstra,
Australia's largest telecommunications carrier, has successfully
completed the first 100 gigabits per second (100G) trial over an
unprecedented 2,038 kilometer stretch of its existing fibre optic
network using innovative, high-speed optical transport technology
from Nortel(1) (OTCBB: NRTLQ).
The trial, conducted in July this year, also successfully tested 40
gigabits per second (40G) transport over 3,370 kilometers of fiber
between the Australian cities of Sydney and Adelaide. Both 40G and
100G trials are believed to be the longest unregenerated distances
ever successfully attempted using the technologies, and demonstrate
Nortel's capacity to deliver one of the most cost-effective
high-speed broadband transport solutions available today. The
solution can position operators like Telstra to increase customer
satisfaction through lower costs to the end-user, and can provide the
opportunity to deliver a wider range of managed applications and
services.
"The success of the trial builds on Nortel's leading 40G technology
and we are proud that Telstra has given us the opportunity to prove
in a real network what others are only talking about regarding 100G,"
said Anthony McLachlan, vice president, Carrier Networks, Nortel
Asia. "During the trial, the Nortel 100G solution allowed Telstra to
redefine the value of its extensive fibre infrastructure with a
tenfold increase in capacity - compared to that of existing 10G
networks - and made the Telstra infrastructure the fastest of its
kind globally over anywhere near this distance."
"These trials with Nortel demonstrate that our existing network is
capable of transporting even larger amounts of network traffic
without incurring the cost of major equipment and infrastructure
upgrades," said Michael Rocca, managing director, Networks & Services
Group, Telstra. "Of course, they also contribute to the development
of technology that will eventually benefit not only Australian
consumers but also the worldwide telecommunications industry."
The key behind the successful trials is Nortel's Dense Wavelength
Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology, and specifically Nortel
innovations such as advanced digital signal processing with coherent
detection, and superior Forward Error Correction (FEC). These
technologies allow service providers like Telstra to migrate to 40G
and 100G technology using their existing 10G network infrastructure.
"10G components are readily available, cost effective and field
proven, and our technology allows carriers to extend their
substantial investments in their 10G networks with a cost-effective
upgrade to 40G and 100G," said McLachlan. "This opens up a new world
of rich, interactive services such as high-definition
videoconferencing, managed storage and disaster recovery services,
allowing carriers to generate new revenue from their networks and
reduce their ongoing operating costs in the process."
About Nortel
Nortel delivers 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.
For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For
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