OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(MARKET
WIRE)--Jul 24, 2007 -- CANARIE, Canada's advanced Research and
Education network, has deployed a new optical network from
Nortel(1) (Toronto:NT.TO - News)(NYSE:NT - News) to provide scientists and researchers with enough
bandwidth to deliver the network capacity required for major
science and research projects as well as education and
training.
Nortel's Metro Ethernet
optical solution has more than quadrupled CANARIE's previous
network capacity. This allows more information sharing and
provides additional bandwidth for multimedia, detailed
simulation and modeling, and other compute-intensive
applications.
"Today's researchers are
heavily dependent on collaboration and access to
high-bandwidth data which require very high speed, high
capacity and reliable networks," said Andrew Bjerring,
president and CEO, CANARIE. "Nortel has been instrumental in
providing the technology and the expertise that enable
CANARIE's ability to provide one of the world's highest
performance, largest capacity, and most sophisticated networks
for research and education."
"CANARIE has taken a highly
aggressive approach to ensuring that Canada remains a center
of excellence for industries that require an ultra
high-performance, research and education network," said
Philippe Morin, president, Metro Ethernet Networks, Nortel.
"The CANARIE network is a prime example of the tremendous
potential the future holds for research and education
initiatives. Continued expansion of networks carrying
everything from multimedia and video conferencing to data will
be instrumental in answering the world's most challenging
scientific research questions."
CANARIE's advanced optical
network forms a national backbone that is helping address
increased bandwidth demand from scientists, researchers and
universities. CANARIE is also an important international
network that provides the highest possible connectivity and
collaboration between Canadian and international research
organizations. Similar to gains made with deployment of CAnet
4, in which provincial networks and universities, schools,
research facilities, government entities and international
partners were connected via an optical network, CANARIE
expects this latest network upgrade to provide Canada with
significant competitive advantage in innovation. It is planned
to help in attracting and retaining investment and talent from
regional research network operators, government laboratories
and researchers requiring pooled resources for
compute-intensive and high-performance applications.
The CANARIE network in
British Columbia and Alberta, and in Ontario and Quebec has
been enhanced with reconfigurable optical add/drop
multiplexing (ROADM) technology from Nortel. This provides
CANARIE and the affiliated provincial networks with
operational simplicity and network agility for easy addition
of new services, resulting in a more cost-effective, reliable
infrastructure. CANARIE also deployed Nortel's unique
electronic Dynamically Compensating Optics (eDCO) which
simplifies networking by extending wavelengths over 2,000 km
without requiring dispersion compensation modules or their
associated amplifiers.
With capacity of up to 72
optical wavelengths operating at 10 Gbps at its core and
future enhancements to 40 Gbps/wavelength, the CANARIE network
will give Canadian scientists and researchers the most
advanced tools possible. It is based on Nortel's Common
Photonic Layer (CPL), a key building block in migrating to
more agile, adaptive, all optical intelligent networking. The
network also includes Nortel Optical Multiservice Edge 6500,
an optical convergence platform that efficiently manages and
transports converged TDM, data and wavelength services.
About
CANARIE
CANARIE, Canada's advanced
network development organization, is a not-for-profit
corporation supported by its members, project partners and the
Federal government. Funding from the Government of Canada has
been used for the research and implementation of advanced
networks and applications that stimulate economic growth and
increase Canada's international competitiveness. CANARIE's
mission is to accelerate Canada's advanced network development
and use by facilitating the widespread adoption of faster,
more efficient networks and by enabling the next generation of
advanced products, applications and services to run on them.
About
Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader
in delivering communications capabilities that make the
promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers.
Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider
and enterprise networks, support multimedia and
business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are
designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency,
speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting
people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel
does business in more than 150 countries around the world. For
more information, visit Nortel on the Web at
www.nortel.com.
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