Nortel Networks New Future-Proof Network Solution Allows Telecommunications Providers to Compete with New-Generation Services
SUCCESSION Network Offers New Internet Services Capability Without
Scrapping Network Infrastructure; Slashes Operating and Capital Costs
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ - Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT/TSE: NTL) today introduced the SUCCESSION Network, a breakthrough solution that allows telecommunications carriers to cost-effectively upgrade their networks to compete head-on with new-generation Internet protocol (IP) services -- without scrapping their existing networks.
The SUCCESSION Network gives traditional telecommunications carriers a future-proof way to preserve the global trillion dollar investment in existing networks from any vendor, while allowing them to deliver the data and e-commerce services being demanded by their business customers today. Unlike some packet telephony solutions currently being touted, the SUCCESSION Network does not require scrapping billion-dollar networks. This ensures that end users achieve the level of reliability they expect from carriers, as well as the highest quality telephony and data transmissions.
The SUCCESSION Network, part of Nortel Networks broad portfolio of packet telephony solutions for both telecommunications providers and the enterprise, is scheduled to be shipped in the fourth quarter of 1999. SBC is currently engaged in a network interoperability trial of Nortel Networks SUCCESSION Network.
An open, standards-based solution, the SUCCESSION Network enables telecommunications providers to offer the revenue-generating telephony services that drive the bulk of their business today, and the new end-to-end IP services that the market is demanding -- all without the expense of a data overlay network. In addition, the SUCCESSION Network rapidly unifies telecommunications provider networks for the world of high-performance, converged telephony and data services, while reducing annual operating costs by up to 45 percent and capital costs by up to 50 percent.
Nortel Networks has delivered on its Unified Networks promise,'' said David Yedwab, of The Eastern Management Group based in Bedminster, NJ. ''With more than 1,000 telecommunications providers as customers, they are a logical leader for this next generation of converged telephony and data network solutions.''
Studies show that telecommunications providers have invested a trillion dollars in the global public network. They cannot throw that investment away -- and they should not trade the reliability of their networks for the promises of companies that don't have experience delivering highly reliable, carrier-grade networks,'' said John Roth, vice chairman and chief executive officer, Nortel Networks. ''We're extending the value of that investment with a solution that can be deployed with other vendors' central office and ATM equipment as well as our own. This will accelerate the reality of next-generation, high-performance Internet and telephony services around the world,'' Roth added.
The new era of networking is about the delivery of telephony over packet networks,'' said Ian Craig, president, Carrier Solutions, Nortel Networks. ''That means delivering all of the service capability and quality of service resident on today's telephony network without technology risk. Nortel Networks has the expertise and portfolio to transform today's circuit-switched networks to packet networks while fully supporting the telecommunications provider's and end-user's critical business needs.''
Williams Communications has selected Nortel Networks as a major vendor for our new network buildout,'' said Joe Turcotte, senior vice president and chief operations officer for Williams Network. Williams Communications, a unit of Williams (NYSE:WMB), has the fourth largest fiber-optic network in the United States with 19,000 route miles constructed and is well on its way to completing 32,000 miles with connections to 125 cities by the end of 2000.
Turcotte added, ''Williams Communications' network has been designed to economically accommodate next generation technologies. We selected the DMS switch because we believe it will be able to rapidly transform into the SUCCESSION next generation network infrastructure on the Williams Multi-Service Broadband Network, capturing high revenue telephony services now, while building a multi-service packet infrastructure for the future.''
Williams Communications' multi-service network couples ATM core switching with advanced optical networking technologies to give its customers a full range of data, voice, video and Internet services over the platform they choose.
This is the type of solution competitive carriers require as they expand their customer base,'' said Bob Taylor, president and chief executive officer, Focal Communications. ''Focal can now take on its competition with both telephony and IP-based services, without the expense of building and maintaining a separate data network.''
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