Data Networking

Nortel's enterprise networking solutions provide the fast, reliable and efficient enabling infrastructure that customers rely on to run their business. Customers can rest assured that their most critical business services will run dependably and effectively.

• Performance - Our enterprise networking solutions deliver solutions that combine high bandwidth and intelligent Quality of Service (QoS) with optimized design. This ensures that all elements of the network solution are active and delivering the fastest, shortest path for traffic flows.
• Resiliency - Always-on solutions are engineered to embed performance, flexibility, and security in unison with end-to-end application-level availability.
• Efficiency - Unique product design allows enterprises to build networks that are inherently more efficient and effective through innovative technology and techniques, energy-efficient hardware, and innovative features - all of which converge to create a truly efficient enterprise-class network, one that minimizes capital equipment and costs, optimizes all available resources, and reduces operational burden and expense.

Nortel embraces a philosophy of open standards and interoperability, evidenced by our deep ecosystem of technology partnerships and vendor-agnostic design. Through easy integration with best-of-breed solutions, our enterprise networking portfolio provides customers with the flexibility, and choice their business requires. Nortel is deeply committed to caring for our customer's business model and through an open standards approach we can provide investment protection.

As the network evolves, it becomes imperative to have best-in-class security solutions. We offer centralized, standards-based access control and authentication solutions that ensure that network infrastructure equipment delivers the level of stability and robustness that customers demand. Nortel's security solutions ensure full network visibility, trusted-user access, and prevent the spread of viruses, worms and data leaks.

Enterprise networking solutions are comprised of:

• Ethernet Routing Switches, designed to securely deliver Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity for converged networking. Nortel's Ethernet Routing Switch Portfolio enables enterprise LANs to intelligently prioritize real-time business communications like voice, video, and multimedia services.
• WLAN portfolio, which provides secure mobile networking, voice connectivity, featuring flexible seamless mobility across campus environment, and choices in deployment. This flexibility gives enterprise customers limitless options for growing their WLAN deployment and affords wireless service providers a multitude of new revenue opportunities.
• Secure Routers, which combine robust IP routing, flexible WAN connectivity and security in a single cost-effective device. Ideal for enterprise branch, remote or regional site environments, Nortel Secure Routers are optimized to deliver the low-latency, high packet throughput required by IP telephony and multimedia applications.
• Application Switches, which integrate routing and switching by forwarding traffic at layer 2 speed using layer 4-7 information.
• Security Solutions, which include award-winning secure network access solutions, identity-aware technology, secure information access, secure multimedia, and secure WLAN, as well as services to help you reduce operational and capital costs, reduce your risk and release your resources to enable better efficiency.
• Network management solutions designed to ensure network resiliency and reduced total cost of ownership for enterprise customers. Nortel's network management solutions provide comprehensive management capabilities across voice, data, and multimedia applications, while simplifying the management environment, reducing installation and configuration time, system operations and maintenance.

* The Tolly Group Report Number 208298, July 2008, reported the results of a power consumption evaluation of six Nortel converged data network products consisting of large and medium core and wiring closet Ethernet Routing Switches (ERS), enterprise branch office routers, and IP phones compared to similar Cisco products on the basis of power consumption and heat dissipation, and five-year operational cost. See also The Tolly Group Report Number 208275, January 2008, and Info-Tech Research Group Report (January 30, 2008).