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 With the current economic downturn, one of the remaining havens for IT and telecom spending is in the government sector. And when the U.S. government spends, the numbers are sometimes eye-popping due to the sheer size of the projects involved. For evidence of that, you don't have to look any further than the $50 billion GSA contract that Nortel Government Solutions (NGS) won a piece of recently.
Nortel has made a couple of announcements over the last few days that have highlighted some pretty impressive optical technology leadership. Late last week, this press release highlighted a 40gig optical win for LG-Nortel with SK Broadband, South Korea's second-largest broadband provider. Using Nortel's 40/100G solution, SK Broadband is upgrading their 10gig network to 40gig. With the addition of DWDM capabilities, SK Broadband now has 3.52 terabits of bandwidth (40gig x 88 wavelengths) to address their growing IPTV and HD videoconferencing services -- all without having to lay a single new strand of fiber.
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This morning Verizon issued this press release highlighting the recent completion of a live field trial of 100 gig optical technology using Nortel equipment. Using Nortel's 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine cards on the Nortel Optical Multiservice Edge (OME) 6500, Verizon transported data error-free at a rate of 92 Gbps over a 73 kilometer stretch of fiber in northeastern Texas.
Nortel announced another customer this morning for its recently unveiled 40/100gig solution. Rascom, an international bandwidth carrier for Russian service providers, is upgrading its existing 10gig backbone to 40gig for its sites in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Helsinki and Stockholm. Rascom has been a Nortel customer since 1993, and was the first company in Russia to build SDH and DWDM fiber-optic networks. More recently Rascom has deployed the Nortel Optical Multiservice Edge (OME) 6500 and Common Photonic Layer (CPL).
 Nortel's much ballyhooed 40gig optical solution has a new customer. This morning we announced that Southern Cross was deploying Nortel's 40gig technology. Southern Cross is an independent bandwidth wholesaler, and its network provides the major link for Internet traffic from Australia, New Zealand and Fiji to the US, as well as linking Hawaii to the US mainland.
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With the current economic downturn, one of the remaining havens for IT and telecom spending is in the government sector. And when the U.S. government spends, the numbers are sometimes eye-popping due to the sheer size of the projects involved. For evidence of that, you don't have to look any further than the $50 billion GSA contract that Nortel Government Solutions (NGS) won a piece of recently.