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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.
Nortel now has 21 customer wins to date for its 40gig solution. And according to the latest Dell’Oro numbers, Nortel had 31% share of the 40gig market in 2Q08, and that’s after only 2 months of product availability.
Bell Canada has already begun their deployment, and ACS plans to have their network up and running by the end of 2008 and available for commercial service very early in 2009. Both the Bell Canada and AWC 40gig networks are based on the Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 running over the Nortel Common Photonic Layer line system.
These two wins are the latest in a string of 40gig announcement for Nortel — including Southern Cross in Australia, Rascom in Russia and Virgin Media in the UK. In fact, Nortel now has 21 customer wins to date for its 40gig solution. And according to the latest Dell’Oro numbers, Nortel had 31% share of the 40gig market in 2Q08, and that’s after only 2 months of product availability.
Nortel’s message with our 40gig solution has been all about enabling 40gig to be deployed over today’s existing 10gig optical infrastructure. That’s the case with these two new wins. In fact, Anand Vadapalli, the senior vice president of Network & IT at ACS had an interesting quote related to this:
“The ACS network involves numerous types of fibers that allow us to offer services across a variety of fiber distances and market densities, including extended long-haul distances. Nortel’s solution is compatible with our array of fiber types and distances, making it simple to add more bandwidth while continuing to offer reliable service to our customers.”
