Nortel Wins Alaska Optical Network Deal
Posted on: Monday, 8 September 2008, 06:00 CDT
Nortel has won a contract from Alaska Communications Systems, ACS, to provide Alaska's first 40G optical network for the terrestrial portion of an undersea fiber-optic cable from Alaska to Oregon.
The company said the network will enable ACS to deliver end-to-end communications solutions for enterprise and mass-market customers between Alaska and the lower 48 states. It said ACS will use its existing 10G network to deploy upgrades from Nortel to deliver a high-bandwidth 40G network that will be available for commercial service by early 2009.
It includes Notel's Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 convergence platform and its Common Photonic Layer line system to deliver high-bandwidth broadband services with low deployment and operational costs. Nortel Optical Network Manager will provide operations administration and management of the network as well as advanced network planning tools.
Anand Vadapalli, senior vice president for networks and IT at ACS, said: "At ACS, we are focused on serving the fast-growing wireline/wireless data and enterprise markets and see significant annual bandwidth growth rates. Nortel's 40G solution will allow us to quadruple our unit capacity while making no compromises on network performance."
Source: Datamonitor
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