Nortel Set to Launch Faster Network Technology

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According to Reuters, Nortel is set to roll out new technology that lets telecom companies immediately quadruple the capacity of their networks. Quadruple? Whoa, that's pretty impressive.

Nortel, North America's biggest maker of telephone equipment, will announce on Wednesday that it will offer an optical technology that delivers speeds of 40 gigabits per second (Gbps) -- about four times as much as today's high-end networking speeds.
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"It recently announced it would cut 2,100 jobs, mostly in North America"

Personally that was the most important thing for me.
 
They were having classes for Nortel at my work, (Kellogg School of Management) I'm glad I know what company it is now. Cool.
 
from the article said:
and move another 1,000 to low-cost locales like China and India.
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That part is what affected me.

I'm sick and tired of outsourcing to other countries. The reason nobody can buy anything is because nobody has a fricking JOB. And those that do have two, three or even four just to make ends meet!
 
40G networks have been around for at least a year now - this is old news. All of the top carriers - AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and Qwest all have 40G segments in their backbones. VZ announced yesterday that it would be putting in 100G segments in the beginning of 2009, and I'm expecting that all other carriers will follow that trend. The maturation of Ethernet as a network access technology has given companies significantly more bandwith at a lower price point. As a result it's pretty common to see companies with GigE circuits and ports - and a couple of customers with Gig ports will eat up a traditional 10G OC-192 extremely quickly.

So anyway, back to the story - 40G (OC-768) networks are old news. Nortel is just playing catch-up to companies like Ciena. It must also be noted that Nortel, from where I sit in Telecom, is going down as company really really fast. All they've got that's even slightly innovative is the tiny BCM50. They're making advances with their CS1000 platform too, but companies that are large enough to justify buying a VoIP-based PBX that costs over $100K typically are willing to look at many other VoIP solutions instead of just blindly going with Nortel.

Sorry for the rant... just kind of touched a nerve to imply that Nortel is being innovative.
 
Nortel had some of the best brains in the business at one time. Maybe they can build the company back up instead of stealing from it and rehire some of the 20,000+ employies they left out in the cold. Most of my freinds are X Nortel people that have gone on to start other companies like EnTrust.
 
devolutionist said:
VZ announced yesterday that it would be putting in 100G segments in the beginning of 2009, and I'm expecting that all other carriers will follow that trend.
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Verizon Business also recently selected Nortel because of their 40G portifolio and planned upgrade path to 100G.

As far as I know, Nortel is to date the only company to demonstrate a commercially viable 100G solution (shown at OFC 2008 and currently undergoing field trials by at least one customer) based on their unique 40G technology. So if 100G is to grow like you say Nortel is well positioned to take advantage of it.

devolutionist said:
So anyway, back to the story - 40G (OC-768) networks are old news. Nortel is just playing catch-up to companies like Ciena.
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As far as I know there are only currently only 2 other players in the 40G market, Infinera which I admittedly know little about and Stratalight which I have worked with and seen deployed and found it to be expensive and hard to design networks for. And if you really want to talk about catch-up, Nortel already had a 40G solution back in 2000 but it was scrapped because of the whole telecom bust.

devolutionist said:
Sorry for the rant... just kind of touched a nerve to imply that Nortel is being innovative.
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Nortel's 40G solution is significantly different than the other offerings available. It's (as far as I know) the first dual polarization quadrature phase shift keying (DP-QPSK) with coherent detection solution ever built. This means it runs at a line rate of 10Gbps per second which is easier to drop into existing networks already designed for 10Gbps signals. It also contains electronic dispersion compensation meaning the network does not need compensators making design and deployment of networks much much easier and cheaper. And the killer feature of the Nortel solution is electronic PMD compensation. This allows the 40G cards to work on lower quality fiber that even 10G solutions fail with.

You can call Nortel many things, but you can't call them uninnovative with regards to this 40G solution.
 
myrv said:
Verizon Business also recently selected Nortel because of their 40G portifolio and planned upgrade path to 100G.

As far as I know, Nortel is to date the only company to demonstrate a commercially viable 100G solution (shown at OFC 2008 and currently undergoing field trials by at least one customer) based on their unique 40G technology. So if 100G is to grow like you say Nortel is well positioned to take advantage of it.

As far as I know there are only currently only 2 other players in the 40G market, Infinera which I admittedly know little about and Stratalight which I have worked with and seen deployed and found it to be expensive and hard to design networks for. And if you really want to talk about catch-up, Nortel already had a 40G solution back in 2000 but it was scrapped because of the whole telecom bust.

Nortel's 40G solution is significantly different than the other offerings available. It's (as far as I know) the first dual polarization quadrature phase shift keying (DP-QPSK) with coherent detection solution ever built. This means it runs at a line rate of 10Gbps per second which is easier to drop into existing networks already designed for 10Gbps signals. It also contains electronic dispersion compensation meaning the network does not need compensators making design and deployment of networks much much easier and cheaper. And the killer feature of the Nortel solution is electronic PMD compensation. This allows the 40G cards to work on lower quality fiber that even 10G solutions fail with.

You can call Nortel many things, but you can't call them uninnovative with regards to this 40G solution.
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Totally true. For 100G network, nortel is making the same approach, using electronics to do chromatic and polarization mode dispersion compensation, and use a more advanced digital modulation technique to transfer more data instead of increasing the baud rate. Just for your information, all the other big players in telecomm is trying to licence Nortel's 40G eDCO and related technology, Nortel's solution doesn't require optical compensation. Another important part is Nortel's solution is a lot less prone to adding more optical multiplexers. Performance (reach) from other vendors solution decreases very rapidly with increase in number of multiplexers and demux. Haha, believe it or not, I will be working in the optical system division of Nortel as a designer starting soon.
 
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