Nortel Bags 40G Deals

TORONTO -- Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(NYSE: NT) announced today that TELUS(2) will deploy Nortel's 40G Optical solution.

"40G deployment will allow TELUS to add capacity to our existing fiber-optic network, helping us maximize use of that asset to the benefit of our customers and shareholders," said Dave Keegstra, director, Technology Strategy, TELUS.

"With demand for bandwidth continuing to increase, companies like TELUS are looking to enhance network capacity and enable more bandwidth for their customer's needs," said Philippe Morin, president, Metro Ethernet Networks, Nortel. "Nortel's 40G is a plug, play and evolve technology that is deployable over any fiber in a simple network design, giving operators an easy and efficient way to quadruple their network capacity and meet future bandwidth demands."

In a separate release:

LONDON -- Western Power Distribution Group company, SURF Telecoms, is using a Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(NYSE: NT) optical solution to unleash additional capacity on its regional optical network. SURF Telecoms is a southwest and Wales-based supplier of managed services including dark optical fibre, carrier wholesale bandwidth and leased lines. The enhanced optical network from Nortel will address the growing demand for high-capacity services in the southwest of the UK.

The express network, due to come into service this month, will help SURF Telecoms activate and deliver services rapidly and efficiently across the southwest. The network upgrade also extends the efficiency of SURF Telecoms' existing WDM networks and operations by aggregating more traffic onto 10G before regional transport.

The Nortel solution can help SURF Telecoms get up to four times the existing capacity when required by simply plugging 40G transponders into the existing Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 terminals on the SURF Telecoms optical network.

In the UK the exodus from cities to rural areas is continuing with people seeking an improved work to life balance and teleworking becoming a growing trend. Opting out of the city commute is one thing, but sacrificing the convenience of fast, modern communications isn't an option for most. For many it is the ease and availability of modern communications in rural and semi rural areas that provides the opportunity to live and work in these communities.

SURF Telecoms' express network is aimed at helping its service provider customers meet increasing consumer demand for bandwidth-hungry applications such as Internet television, high-definition programming and maintaining high service levels generated by rapidly growing business network traffic. SURF Telecoms customers include communications providers, broadband ISPs and broadcasters, systems integrators, communications intensive businesses, utilities, corporate sector business and the education and health sectors.

"Our customers demand more bandwidth everyday. They want to use our services to deliver faster Internet access, high-quality video streaming, and the ability to support higher bandwidth business services and applications," said Steve Blew, commercial manager, SURF Telecoms. "Nortel's solution is simplicity itself in that it enabled us to continue to use SURF Telecoms existing network assets, increase network capacity and speed up service delivery across the whole of our region. Our network investment is protected too, as by using 40G transponders, we can simply scale the existing network to four times the bandwidth capacity without any network re-engineering."

Nortel Networks Ltd.

Telus Corp. (NYSE: TU; Toronto: T)

Surf Telecoms Ltd.