TORONTO – Nortel has unveiled the industry’s first commercially available 100G optical solution, and announced that Verizon has deployed the solution in their live customer network in Europe.
Nortel’s 100G solution uses unique technology that allows service providers to increase the bandwidth of today’s typical 10G infrastructure by ten times without the need to rip and replace major parts of the network, removing a significant cost barrier.
"Nortel’s 100G optical solution uses groundbreaking technology that allows service providers to meet the demands that high bandwidth applications like HD video on demand, on-line gaming and cloud computing are putting on their network," said Philippe Morin, president of Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks, in the announcement.
Using its existing network, Verizon is carrying live enterprise customer Private IP traffic over a 100G wavelength on an 893km link between Paris and Frankfurt. The 100G wavelength was added alongside in-service 10G wavelengths in the same fibre.
In addition to Verizon’s industry-first live 100G deployment, Nortel has previously conducted eight successful trials of its 100G solution with service providers around the world.
