Nortel's Metro Ethernet Business Chugs Along, Despite its 'For Sale' Status

As much as the economic landscape is volatile, Nortel’s (NT) Metro Ethernet network business, which is on the sales block, seems to be chugging along with a flurry of 40G press releases.

The latest customer for its 40G optical technology is Telus, which announced on Tuesday plans to deploy it as a way to expand the capacity of its existing fiber-optic network.

“With demand for bandwidth continuing to increase, companies like Telus are looking to enhance network capacity and enable more bandwidth for their customer’s needs,” said MEN president Philippe Morin. “Nortel’s 40G is a plug, play and evolve technology that is deployable over any fiber in a simple network design, giving operators an easy and efficient way to quadruple their network capacity and meet future bandwidth demands.”

Nortel also signed a 40G deal with Surf Telecoms, which supplies managed service in the U.K. It plans to use Nortel technology to deal with growing demand for high-bandwidth services in the southwest U.K.

As well, Nortel’s 40G technology was selected by Mediacom Communications to power a new high-speed network in Chicago, Des Moines and Omaha.

Comments

[User 297952:]

Mark, can you put some info out re Nortel pensions. What happens if NT goes down, What happens if they get sold. What happens if they dont pay into their underfunding, etc.Lots of pensioners need to know what are the laws regarding this. Thanks.......

2008 Dec 04 08:39 AM

[TCLV:]

Nice to win MEN deals....but notice Nortel did not post the deal values...talk is cheap, where's the buyer for this division?

2008 Dec 04 10:09 AM