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Bell Canada Deploying Nortel's 40G Optical Solution(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nortel announced that Bell has begun deployment of Nortel's 40G Optical Solution in its backbone network. Nortel said its 40G Adaptive Optical Engine enables four times the current network bandwidth within Bell's Montreal-New York, Toronto-Chicago and Toronto-Montreal traffic corridors. The investment gives Bell more bandwidth in its backbone network, ensuring support for more customers and higher access speeds down the road. "We're excited to partner with Bell to announce Nortel's first 40G deployment in Canada," said Philippe Morin, president, Metro Ethernet Networks, Nortel. "We are bringing together two great Canadian communications companies to ensure we address some of the network challenges and opportunities facing the Canadian and international broadband markets." Nortel stated its solution will enable 40G transmission to co-exist within Bell's current 10G network, allowing fibre-optic cables, thinner than a human hair, to carry vast am ounts of information across the network. Considerable cost savings result from using the existing infrastructure as there is no need for Bell to deploy new fibre or alternate solutions for the metro and long haul parts of the network. Nortel noted among the key firsts of this solution include Dual Polarization Quadrature Phase Shift Keying with coherent detection that allows 40G operation over a 10G network as well as advanced digital network, along with their associated capital and operational expenditures. The solution is built on the Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 and runs over the Nortel Common Photonic Layer line system. Nortel is a provider of communications capabilities. Bell is a Canadian communications company, providing consumers with solutions to all their communications needs, including telephone services, wireless communications, high-speed Internet, digital television and voice over IP. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) ((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com)) ((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com)) Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News |