announced what it called "significant technology innovations" for its Optical Metro portfolio designed to speed Optical Ethernet deployments worldwide and to reduce operating costs up to 60 percent.
These new products and software enhancements will enable carriers to deploy and manage new revenue-generating metro services like Voice over IP (VoIP), virtual private networks (VPNs), storage networking and streaming media on a wide scale across all types of Ethernet networks, officials said.
As part of its strategy to encourage wide scale deployment of metro Ethernet services, two new products have been added to Nortel Networks OPTera portfolio:
- OPTera Metro 1200 Ethernet Services Module (ESM), a new class of Optical Ethernet edge device, is designed specifically to allow service providers to quickly and easily provision Ethernet services to multiple enterprises while enabling end-to-end quality of service (QoS) guarantees.
- OPTera Metro 8000 Services Switch will serve as an entry point into the
service providers' core metro networks. The new device will feature innovative, standards-based Layer 2 MPLS software that will provide all of the inherent benefits of MPLS, and will enable carriers to cost-effectively scale metro Ethernet networks to tens of thousands of enterprise customers per city.
The OPTera Metro 1200 ESM will be available in March 2002, while the OPTera Metro 8000 will be released in 2002's second quarter.
As a key differentiator for its Optical Ethernet solution, Nortel Networks has enhanced OPTera Metro 3500 Multiservice Platform, a next generation SONET device, to enable service providers to offer consistent services and end-to-end service guarantees over different, but fully interoperable, metro networks, including Ethernet over Resilient Packet Ring (RPR), Ethernet over DWDM, and Ethernet over fiber. In addition, Nortel Networks has increased the scalability of Ethernet over RPR solutions by 12 times.
Nortel Networks has also enhanced Preside Ethernet Provisioning platform to provide complete, fully automated provisioning of new services, end-to-end. This industry-first capability will position service providers to reduce operational costs and improve time-to-revenue for new services.
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