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Nortel unveils Metro Ethernet innovations for video, 3G and business services

June 6, 2006

Following its recent announcement of a new business targeted at Metro Ethernet Networks, Nortel introduced innovations to meet the growing demand for high-bandwidth video and data services in service provider metropolitan networks. Nortel's innovations enable service providers to confidently use Ethernet - once a technology used only for PC connectivity in the LAN - as the means for delivering mission critical high-bandwidth services like IPTV, mobile video, and business services.

"Nortel is delivering on its recently announced Metro Ethernet Networks focus, offering innovative solutions that are designed to give Ethernet the determinism, scale, management and service convergence capabilities that are needed to address the growing video transport market," said Philippe Morin, president, Metro Ethernet Networks, Nortel. "As new video services become more pervasive, Metro Ethernet gives service providers the capability to satisfy the dramatically increasing requirements for bandwidth and strict performance in metropolitan networks while still maintaining the cost-effectiveness and simplicity that makes Ethernet attractive."

"The growth of video services, from high-definition broadcast to video on demand, across cable, DSL, fiber, and mobile networks, is driving unprecedented demand for bandwidth and Ethernet transport equipment across metro area networks," said Jeff Heynen, directing analyst, Broadband and IPTV, Infonetics Research. "Ethernet is being increasingly relied on for video traffic because of its cost effectiveness, ability to scale and its flexible QoS models for the increasing variety of video service offerings."

Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks portfolio is focused on making Ethernet more capable for service provider deployments where deterministic service delivery with guaranteed quality of service and carrier-grade reliability is required. Nortel's solutions also give Ethernet the ability to scale to millions of users while ensuring the network is easy to operate and manage with a comprehensive set of management tools. Specifically:

- Nortel is incorporating the deterministic, carrier-grade connection management characteristics of SONET/ SDH into Ethernet with its innovative Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) technology. PBT is now available on the Metro Ethernet Routing Switch (MERS) 8600, with development underway to integrate PBT into the Optical Multiservice Edge (OME) 6500 and other Ethernet-ready platforms. Nortel developed PBT as a reliable, simple, scalable and cost-effective technology enabling Ethernet-based Metro Networks to work seamlessly with service providers' existing MPLS core networks.

- Nortel was a driving force in bringing massive scalability (up to millions of service instances per metro) to Ethernet through the standardization of Provider Backbone Bridging (IEEE 802.1ah or Mac-in-Mac). An early implementation of PBB has been available on Nortel's Metro Ethernet portfolio for several years, and a fully standardized version will be delivered later this year as the standard is ratified.

- Nortel is enabling service convergence on its Metro Ethernet solutions with the availability of integrated, standards-compliant resilient packet ring (RPR) technology into its flagship OME 6500 optical platform. RPR capabilities on the OME 6500 support multiple Ethernet rings of up to 10Gbps and the ability to provision up to eight classes of service on a per customer and per application basis. This helps ensure real-time traffic like video is prioritized, and enables service providers to offer differentiated service level agreements to their business services customers.

- Nortel is supporting the development of new Ethernet operations, administration and maintenance (OAM) standards to dramatically enhance the manageability of Ethernet. These standards are being implemented across our Metro Ethernet portfolio to deliver comprehensive fault detection, notification, isolation and troubleshooting mechanisms, in addition to standardized performance monitoring tools.

- In addition, Nortel has developed several new Ethernet enhancements that improve the scalability and performance of its Metro Ethernet portfolio. This includes a new 10 GE Ultra card on the Nortel Optical Metro 5200 that enables the transport of 10 Gigabit Ethernet up to 175km without the need for regeneration or dispersion compensation, a 59% improvement over previous capabilities.