Nortel Buzzboard

Nortel announced another customer this morning for its recently unveiled 40/100gig solution. Rascom, an international bandwidth carrier for Russian service providers, is upgrading its existing 10gig backbone to 40gig for its sites in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Helsinki and Stockholm.

Rascom has been a Nortel customer since 1993, and was the first company in Russia to build SDH and DWDM fiber-optic networks. More recently Rascom has deployed the Nortel Optical Multiservice Edge (OME) 6500 and Common Photonic Layer (CPL).

Their existing Nortel infrastructure made this upgrade a simple installation of two 40gig transponders per node - and takes advantage of the fact that Nortel’s 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine can squeeze that increased amount of traffic over today’s existing 10gig fiber links.

The Rascom win is the latest in a string of 40/100gig customer announcements for Nortel. The most recent of what was earlier this month when we announced that Southern Cross Cables was also deploying a Nortel 40gig solution.