Thank you, Kenneth. The topic of GbE in the WAN has suddenly become very HOT, especially where dark fiber is available, or where carriers are agreeable to IEEE protocol transport over managed wavelengths.
I'd like to hear some views from you and others here on this. Here's an excerpt from the release you posted. What do you think (anyone here think?) about the ability of GbE to scale over greater numbers of locations, and over greater distances? And what are the other concerns w.r.t. reliability, self-restoring, admin, etc. Anyone?
FAC
----- an excerpt from the press release:
"The network solution based on Gigabit Ethernet technology operates the same
protocol from the network core to the desktop at gigabit speed. Although this is
the first commercial deployment of Gigabit Ethernet technology, INTRIA- HP has
managed the risk by overlaying the Gigabit Ethernet solution over CIBC's
existing network infrastructure to minimize any implementation issues, making
certain that the new network is fully operational before the old infrastructure
is removed.
"We selected Nortel Networks' Gigabit Ethernet solution because of its inherent
best-in-class advantages and because it exceeds all of CIBC's requirements -
affordability, scalability, reliability and capacity," said Tom Gillette, senior
vice president, Sales, Bell Nexxia. "Our knowledge of customers helped Nortel
Networks to develop the optical Ethernet solution that provides higher bandwidth
at a lower cost."
"Nortel Networks is delivering the speed, quality, reliability and economics of
the high-performance Internet to today's enterprises," said Don Smith,
president, Optical Internet, Nortel Networks. "With this solution, we can help
CIBC realize its business objectives by extending the simplicity of the LAN
across the WAN."
One of the key features of Nortel Networks' optical Ethernet solution is the
breakthrough interWAN(x) Packet Transport to integrate Ethernet switching across
the complete Nortel Networks OPTera(x) and Transport Node product lines.
Nortel Networks' end-to-end optical Ethernet solution provides a new way of
building integrated residential, business, service provider, and optical
networks all based on one common language - Ethernet technology. It combines the
power and reliability of optical networking with the simplicity, flexibility,
and cost-effectiveness of Ethernet to deliver greater bandwidth with lower cost.
----------end excerpt |
