Nortel’s (News - Alert) newly introduced virtualization solution can highly improve the performance of Enterprise Networks by enabling them to combine previously separated task functions together to function as one. This also avoids the realignment of networks each time updates are needed and virtualization also simplifies data center design and management of networks for lower operational expenses. Also it helps to maintain the costs of expanding available services and dramatically reduces energy consumption.

 

Nortel is a provider of communications capabilities that make businesses very simple and its 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.

 

Nortel’s Virtualization solution will enable service providers to treat different clients at the same time by providing them each a traffic free undisturbed data stream. Service providers can also add new services with this set up and can increase their profits without any hindrances.

 

“Nortel's network virtualization solution enables enterprises and service providers to simplify their communications infrastructure by allowing resources to be made available in a collective manner and to be allocated as needed," said Cindy Borovick, research vice president, Data Center Networks, IDC (News - Alert).

 

"This maximizes the capabilities of their network, decreasing wasted resources. It also limits the equipment that needs to be deployed, delivering savings over the life of the solution. The integration with a server virtualization solution gives new options for end-to-end virtualization deployments."

 

Nortel's end-to-end network virtualization solution features the Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS) 8600 5.0 coupled with the Virtual Services Switch (VSS) 5000, a new platform that consolidates network elements and provides flexible and dynamic network services on-the-fly, with proven integration with server virtualization solutions.

 

The ERS 8600's 10G high port density, industry-leading resiliency, Layer 3 routing virtualization and simplified virtual private network provisioning over the existing IP backbone, simplifies network design and increases cost-effectiveness and reliability. Its robust resiliency serves multiple customers, departments or user groups within the LAN and across the campus/metro network.

 

"Creating a virtual network increases the speed and simplicity of commerce. It reduces the time to deploy new services and applications, add new networking elements and allows what are essentially different networks to be operated as a single entity," said Joel Hackney (News - Alert), president, Enterprise Solutions, Nortel. "It also speeds the time and ability for enterprises to take advantage of important new technologies like unified communications which can mitigate the complexity of business communications by linking them directly to business process. Our customers also now have the ability to introduce their own revenue-generating services quickly."