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Archive for October 1st, 2008

Pics from the Nortel booth at BBFW

Yesterday I highlighted Nortel’s introduction with LG-Nortel of a first-to-market WDM-PON solution from the Broadband World Forum (BBWF) show in Brussels.  Below are some pictures from the Nortel booth at the show.  Nortel’s booth features the new WDM-PON solution, as well as Nortel’s 40/100 gig optical solution.  Click on thumbnails below for larger pics.

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Australian University deploying $10M network connecting 150 sites

CRN Australia has a great article today about RMIT, a university based in Melbourne that is working with Nortel to completely update their network across three main campuses and 150 sites.  Nortel actually announced the contract with RMIT back in February, but this article by CRN Australia goes into great detail on their plans and progress via an interview with Allan Morris, the executive director of IT services for RMIT.

The end goal of the 2+ year, $10 million project is a campus-wide VoIP and unified communications network, as well as a variety of new communications and collaboration services.

RMIT will use the Nortel CS 1000 IP-PBX and MCS 5100 will be …

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