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Providing more bandwidth for high-speed services and applications, Southern Cross Cables has selected Nortel (News - Alert) 40G optical technology. With this partnership, the company is looking to cater to the demand for bandwidth from service provider customers in Asia Pacific for high-speed services and applications like IPTV and HD video.

 

With the help of Nortel's solution, Southern Cross can offer four times the bandwidth with a simple card upgrade, eliminating the need for costly and complex infrastructure changes. The company can also offer speeds of up to 100G or 10 times the current offering - all with the same ease and simplicity of today's 10G networks with Nortel's 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine. It also provides the ease and simplicity of today's 10G networks, which customers are accustomed to.

 

Based on Nortel's flagship OME 6500, an optical convergence platform, Nortel's solution for Southern Cross supports transponding, TDM and Ethernet switching on a single device. While maintaining minimal infrastructure costs, the solution also allows service providers a smooth migration to a reliable and scalable Ethernet infrastructure. Compensating optics (eDCO) technology that enables fiber spans of up to 2,000 kilometers without the need for costly regeneration equipment, the OME 6500 features Nortel's unique electronic. OME 6500 has been deployed in over 200 networks globally, including with Verizon (News - Alert) Business across Europe and Asia.

 

As applications like HD video conferencing are gaining in popularity in large companies, the need for faster, high-bandwidth services is growing. Also, over the next four years, the Australian government has committed to build a high-speed, fiber-based broadband network for the majority of the population. With Nortel's 40G technology, the region's major broadband providers like Southern Cross will get an opportunity to supply their customers with the network scalability they need well into the future.

 

“As demand grows for more bandwidth-sapping services like streaming high-definition video, we needed to increase our capacity without compromising the reliability of the network,” said Dean Veverka. “Nortel's technology gives us a simple, cost-effective upgrade to 40G and an equally simple upgrade path to 100G in the future. We are also looking at the potential for this 40G technology to be deployed on our longer distance submarine segments. This ensures our service provider customers are guaranteed high levels of service as they continue to meet demand for innovative services in their respective markets.”