Nortel solution to provide DSL for Broadview customers
Nortel Networks Corp NT
Shares issued 1,421,568,571 Oct 11 close $91.95
Thu 12 Oct 2000 News Release
Ms. Carrie McGranahan reports
Broadview Networks has selected a broadband access solution from Nortel to
provide high-quality digital subscriber line (DSL) service to its business
and residential customers.
Broadview is deploying the Nortel Universal Edge intelligent multiservice
access system (IMAS) in its integrated voice and data network under an
extension to an existing contract with Nortel for advanced switching and
access systems.
Nortel's Universal Edge IMAS, the first carrier-class broadband access
solution to combine support for multiple DSL transmission types with
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switching, is part of the Nortel strategy
to enable the local Internet. Universal Edge IMAS delivers scalability,
port density and a redundant architecture for reliability.
"The carrier-class Universal Edge IMAS provides the redundancy and
operational reliability that our state-of-the-art network requires," said
Kenneth A. Shulman, chief technology officer of Broadview, which serves
customers in the Northeast and is based in New York, N.Y. "Its architecture
incorporates a true ATM switch, not just multiplexing and concentration."
"This allows us to integrate multiple traffic types, assure quality of
service (QoS) and efficiently utilize transport capacity," Mr. Shulman
said. "In addition, Universal Edge IMAS is highly scalable, making it easy
to cost-effectively increase network and port capacity to broaden our
customer's communications capabilities."
Broadview also uses Nortel's DMS 500 multiservice switching systems,
AccessNode and Universal Edge 9000 DSL-grade high-speed service access
platforms to support its high-capacity digital network construction
program.
"We are delighted to expand our relationship with Broadview Networks," said
Roger Dorf, vice-president and general manager, broadband access, Nortel
Networks. "Broadview Networks is committed to providing its customers with
advanced communications services and applications. We are helping to
fulfill that goal with solutions that can deliver the industry's fastest
and most reliable high-performance Internet services.
"The multiservice architecture and high port density of our Universal Edge
IMAS are designed to provide DSL services with superior quality at a lower
cost than alternative products," Mr. Dorf said.
Designed primarily for service providers that wish to offer
business-quality DSL services, the Universal Edge IMAS delivers full ATM
switching, traffic management and QoS. These features enable service
providers to deliver multiple services -- including voice, video and data
-- to their customers over a single DSL line. With the extensive QoS
capabilities of Nortel's Universal Edge IMAS, commercial customers can
receive service levels previously available only from T1/E1, frame relay
and ISDN, but at lower cost.
Nortel's Universal Edge IMAS supports a range of DSL technologies --
including ADSL, G.Lite, IDSL and SDSL -- on a single, flexible access
platform so that service providers can minimize technology risk. Service
providers can deploy mature services such as ADSL today and migrate to
optimized services such as G.Lite as the need arises.
Broadview is a network-based electronically integrated communications
provider of data, Internet and voice services to small- and medium-sized
businesses and communications-intensive residential customers in the
Northeast United States.
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