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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (16016)	9/28/1999 8:56:00 AM
From: signist	Respond to of 42804

(COMTEX) B: Light news from Nortel TORONTO, Sep 28, 1999 (The Canadian Press via COMTEX) -- Nortel Networks is upgrading its Internet trunk technology to offer speeds of up to 19 trillion bits per second, promising ''an Internet at the speed of light, 99.999 per cent reliable.'' Nortel's OPTera Packet Solution will in future be improved to transmit hundreds of terabits per second, Nortel said in an announcement Tuesday. The fibre-optic-based technology -- some available now, the rest to arrive by late next year -- ''will unify optical and packet networks into one powerful infrastructure capable of carrying all types of traffic.'' The Nortel announcement said Britain's Cable and Wireless Communications has purchased OPTera products for a major network expansion. The value of the agreement was not disclosed. Nortel, which says its fibre-optic systems carry over 75 per cent of backbone Internet traffic in North America, said its new technology will replace switches that cause more than half of network failures. Said Clarence Chandran, president of Nortel's carrier packet solutions unit: ''We are leading the Internet revolution by doubling the bandwidth capacity of fibre optics and halving the cost of networking every nine months. Demand for our optical Internet solutions is exploding as the market grows at 56 per cent annually to over $35 billion US by 2001.'' Copyright (c) 1999 The Canadian Press (CP), All rights reserved. -0- * end of story *