Interesting post about Bell Nexxia buying networking equipment from Cisco - Comes on the same day of announcement from Nortel that Bell Nexxia is buying optical equipment and DWDM technology from Nortel. Bell Nexxia is owned by BCE, a holding company for Bell of Canada which also owns 40% of Nortel. Here is the presss release from Nortel.
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Bell Nexxia and Nortel Networks to Light Up
Next-Generation Backbone Network
PR Newswire - March 11, 1999 09:53
TORONTO, March 11 /CNW-PRN/ - Bell Nexxia, Bell Canada's national broadband and Internet
solutions company, announced that through its strategic relationship with Nortel Networks(x) (NYSE:
NT/TSE: NTL), it has selected Nortel Networks to light up its ultra-capacity core transport network.
The network, which extends across Canada with links to the United States, will be completed by April
this year.
Bell Nexxia today turned up the first part of its core backbone network linking Toronto, Winnipeg and
Chicago. This network is the first of several initiatives through which Bell Nexxia and Nortel Networks
are exploiting the full benefits of optical and IP networking. The aim of this venture is to offer
customers, both in Canada and the United States, unprecedented reliability, speed and network
innovation.
The network features Nortel Networks' leading-edge optical and Dense- Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (D-WDM) technologies for fast, high-capacity and reliable communications. The network
is managed end-to-end by Nortel Networks' Integrated Network Management (INM), which enables
remote turn-up of features and services plus ongoing network maintenance. Nortel Networks' optical
ATM and frame relay systems (Passport(x)) and access products are already in-service in the Bell
Nexxia network.
Terry Jarman, president and CEO, Bell Nexxia believes that Nortel Networks was the ''first and only
choice'' for this all-important network build. ''This core transport network is the foundation on which
we will deliver Bell Nexxia's portfolio of products and services. Our customers depend on reliable,
secure and economical networks. They need solutions that are future-proof. Only Nortel Networks
can provide that level of performance and innovation in an ultra-capacity optical network.''
Diverse e-commerce applications, advanced Local, Metropolitan and Wide Area Network solutions,
and more can be supported by Bell Nexxia's core network, with sufficient capacity to easily
accommodate future services. Bell Nexxia and Nortel Networks are jointly developing a suite of
innovative inter-networking, ATM and access broadband services which will be co-marketed to
benefit Bell Nexxia business customers in future.
''Nortel Networks is at the heart of the Internet revolution, delivering real world solutions and
products today,'' said John Roth, vice-chairman and CEO, Nortel Networks. ''We also excel at
anticipating future requirements. Bell Nexxia's investment in the latest optical networking technologies
today will bring its customers many new opportunities and future benefits.''
Through its investment in Nortel Networks' technologies, Bell Nexxia's network can operate at up to
320 billion bits of data per second with such high reliability that there would only be one incorrect bit in
every quadrillion bits transmitted. This performance level is 1000 times better than that of most existing
networks.
This network build expands Nortel Networks' leadership in high-capacity optical networking. Nortel
Networks has provided the optical networking infrastructure for 17 out of 20 of the major new
network builds worldwide over the past two years.
''The demand for capacity continues. Nortel Networks continues its strength with new carriers,'' said
Dana Cooperson, senior analyst at RHK (Ryan Hankin Kent, Inc.), a South San Francisco, California
based market research and consulting firm. ''In a highly competitive market, Nortel Networks has
maintained a remarkable 90 percent market share in 10 Gbps systems.''
About Bell Nexxia
Bell Nexxia is Bell Canada's new national IP-broadband solutions company providing next generation
Internet services to businesses in Canada and the U.S. The largest-IP-broadband company in Canada,
Bell Nexxia markets a full range of state-of-the-art products and services to large enterprise customers
and service providers. Bell Nexxia's Internet web site is located at bellnexxia.com
About Nortel Networks
Nortel Networks delivers value to customers around the world through Unified Networks(x) solutions,
spanning mission-critical telephony and IP-optimized networks. Customers include public and private
enterprises and institutions; Internet service providers; local, long-distance, cellular and PCS
communications companies, cable television carriers, and utilities.
Nortel Networks' common shares are listed on the New York, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and
London stock exchanges. Nortel Networks had 1998 revenues of US$17.6 billion and has
approximately 75,000 employees worldwide.
(x) Nortel Networks, the Nortel Networks Globemark, Unified Networks,
Passport and How the world shares ideas are trademarks of Northern
Telecom Limited
SOURCE Bell Nexxia
/CONTACT: Shelley E. Grandy, Nortel Networks, (905) 863-2105,
sgrandy(at)nortelnetworks.com; Don Hogarth, Bell Canada, (416) 581-4253,
donald.hogarth(at)bell.ca; Or visit Nortel Networks' website at
www.nortelnetworks.com/
(NT NTL.)
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