DENVER, CO – Liberty Global, one of the world’s largest cable operators, has signed an agreement to purchase VoIP services from Nortel through 2007.
Nortel becomes an approved vendor for Liberty Global and its cable subsidiaries, including UPC Broadband in Europe, J:COM in Japan, and VTR in Chile, which have a total of 15 million customers in 18 countries.
The global purchase agreement gives Liberty Global a uniform purchasing process and pricing terms. It will cover contracts recently awarded to Nortel by UPC Broadband, including the rollout of Nortel’s CS 2000-based VoIP system in the Netherlands and Austria. Liberty will be purchasing Nortel products such as Communication Server (CS) 2000 and 2000-Compact, Nuera BTX and MG 3000 series media gateways, Multimedia Communication Server 5200, Optical Metro 4000 series, Optical Metro 5000 series, Common Photonic Layer (CPL), Optical Multiservice Edge (OME) 6500, Optical Long Haul 1600, and Optical Cross Connect DX.
“We anticipate telephone services utilizing voice over IP technologies to be a tremendous service offering for our customers," said Tony Werner, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Liberty Global. "This purchasing agreement furthers the strong relationship we have with Nortel, and we look forward to having Nortel continue to provide cable solutions that support VoIP and other quality services that we deliver to our customers."
Nortel’s VoIP and optical transport systems are in use in more than 30 cable networks worldwide, the company says.
