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July 24, 2008
Nortel Optical Solution to Aid Russia's Rascom, Drive IPTV Capability
By Anuradha Shukla, TMCnet Contributing Editor
Rascom says it’s using Nortel’s (News - Alert) 40G Adaptive Optical Engine to unlock the multi-terabit capacity of its long haul optical network. Nortel says it’s allowing Rascom to offer services at higher speeds and improved performance.
By installing two 40G transponders per node, Rascom says it can address the increasing consumer demand for bandwidth-hungry applications such as IPTV (News - Alert), high-definition programming and maintain high service levels generated by rapidly growing corporate network traffic.
Vitaly Ivanovich Kireev, general director of Rascom, said his company chose Nortel’s 40G solution because it was timely, simple and cost-effective to do so today. He said that Rascom’s investment in this 40G network will enable the company to meet the growing bandwidth demand of customers.
Ivanovich Kireev said that his was the first company in Russia to build SDH and DWDM fiber-optic networks and they are still a leading innovator in both the Russian and European markets.
Sorin Lupu, the company’s Eastern European markets leader, said the Nortel solution delivers competitive advantage for Rascom and other innovative operators of transport networks by modernizing existing optical networks quickly and cost-effectively, optimizing management processes and quadrupling throughput.
Nortel’s officials explain that by using Nortel 40G Adaptive Optical Engine, Rascom has been able to increase available bandwidth four-fold without modifying their network architecture, laying or renting new fiber.
Nortel’s Optical Network Manager is helping Rascom conduct network wide administration, monitoring and planning from a single management center at St. Petersburg. All these capabilities help them in rapid troubleshooting, fault resolution and traffic management without needing visits from technical personnel or visiting individual network nodes, according to the company.
Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anuradha’s articles, please visit her columnist page.
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