Nortel 40gig optical wins keep piling up
Nortel today announced two industry firsts for 40gig optical. Nortel announced a 40gig win with Bell Canada, the first Canadian carrier deployment of 40G. Nortel also announced a 40gig win with Alaska Communications Systems (ACS), the first-ever 40gig deployment in Alaska.
Bell Canada will be upgrading their existing 10gig routes to 40gig for their major Internet corridors — the Toronto to Chicago, Toronto to Montreal, and Montreal to New York routes (two thirds of content delivered to Bell Internet customers comes via Chicago and New York City links). ACS will deploy a Nortel 40G solution for the terrestrial portion of an undersea fiber-optic cable from Alaska to Oregon to connect Alaska with the lower 48 states.
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