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ESPI: business plan looking great: <<<< go2net.newsalert.com GENEVA, Switzerland, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ - The communications company for the networked economy - e.spire Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:ESPI) - has turned up a 194-mile long-haul Internet, data and voice network in the US northeast based on Nortel Networks (NYSE/TSE: NT) market-leading optical solutions. The backbone network connects e.spire's metropolitan area networks in New York City, Newark, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia, creating a highly reliable regional network linking some of the busiest commercial centers in the United States. ''We're right on track with meeting the explosive bandwidth demands of our ever-expanding customer base,'' said Dennis Kern, chief operating officer, e.spire. ''For e.spire to offer our customers advanced applications such as Internet access and Web hosting, we needed the best optical networking solution to address our capacity and service protection demands. Nortel Networks' end-to-end optical networking portfolio delivered that solution.'' The network backbone is based on Nortel Networks' 2.5 Gbps platform with Dense-Wavelength Division Multiplexing (D-WDM) scalable to 320 Gbps on a single fiber. With that capacity, the e.spire network will be able to support four million simultaneous voice-grade-equivalent (VGE) circuits or standard voice telephone lines. ''e.spire has taken an aggressive approach to meeting the demand for advanced services and applications over the web at the speed of light,'' said Anil Khatod, president Optical Internet, Nortel Networks. ''This continues our strong momentum in helping service providers build the Optical Internet.'' The network supports inter-city connectivity of multi-protocol services including private lines, IP, ATM, frame relay and voice traffic, and is monitored through Nortel Networks remote surveillance facility using Nortel Networks' Integrated Network Management (INM). ''By owning this D-WDM backbone, e.spire will be able to reduce ongoing costs by rolling out leased circuits, thereby providing extended service offerings and geographic reach for our customers,'' said Kern. go2net.newsalert.com >>>>