Nortel Enhances Ethernet Products

CHICAGO –- Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT] introduced new products and functionality for its Metro Ethernet portfolio that are designed to eliminate technical barriers and high costs service providers face in deploying Ethernet-based triple-play services – voice, video, data – to residential and enterprise customers in metro and national markets. Paired with the Nortel Ultra Broadband Solution portfolio, these products offer a powerful end-to-end solution for service providers.

Enhancements to the Nortel Metro Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS) 8600 and the addition of the Nortel Metro Ethernet Services Unit (ESU) 1850 are designed to allow delivery of voice, video or data over any port, as well as the ability to securely separate end-user traffic for over 4,000 subscribers on each and every port. Combined with new Internet Protocol (IP) multicast capabilities also now available, they provide a platform capable of supporting delivery of IPTV, VoIP and Internet access services to tens of thousands of residential and enterprise subscribers using a single Ethernet infrastructure.

Danish utility company EnergiMidt recently began deployment of a Nortel ultra broadband solution to provide triple-play services to its customers across the Netherlands. The Metro ERS 8600 and the new Ethernet Services Unit 1850 are also deployed in the network to provide aggregation and switching of the Ethernet infrastructure, working in conjunction with the Broadband Access Services Gateway 7710 Optical Line Terminal for residential delivery of triple-play services using Passive Optical Networking (PON).

“Our services strategy required that we deploy a network that is able to support a traditional triple-play offering today while providing the flexibility and scalability to enable next generation IP-based offerings in the future,” said Martin Romvig, general manager, EnergiMidt Broadband. “Providing a cost competitive offering is critical for our market penetration plans, and the unequalled support of Ethernet services in the Nortel Metro Ethernet solution made it a vital part of allowing us to achieve these service goals.”

Nortel Networks Ltd.