40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine

All the extra bandwidth you need without the network re-engineering. Nortel's innovative Adaptive Optical Engine solutions provide the simplest migration path from 10G to both 40G and 100G.

With Nortel’s proven, commercially available 40G and 100G optical solutions, your 10G network can be used to deliver four or ten times its existing capacity while maintaining signal reach and performance. Our groundbreaking technology enables transmission up to 100Gbps over existing infrastructures without the complex network re-engineering or costly add-on equipment required by alternative solutions. Our 40G/100G solutions even work over fiber considered marginal for 10Gbps transmission. That removes a significant cost barrier for service providers facing today’s constrained CAPEX budgets.

It is no wonder that more than 50 service providers and operators worldwide rely on Nortel’s 40G solution to transport their critical traffic, and why Nortel was selected for the world’s first live 100G network.

Why do I need it?

Why do I need 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine?

Why do I need 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine? Your customers demand more bandwidth every day. They want faster Internet access and downloads, high quality video streaming, and the ability to use higher bandwidth applications.

But will they wait patiently while you do the roadwork required to upgrade your current network?

Use your existing network and optical fibers and effectively retool your hardware to make the jump to four or ten times the capacity. You won't need to rip and replace, even when you need to make the move to 100G. Nortel has pioneered this 40G/100G evolution and can provide everything your business needs to get it.

How do I do it?

How can Nortel's 40G/100G solution enhance my business?

How can Nortel's 40G/100G solution enhance my business? Nortel has solved very complex optical transmission obstacles with coherent detection, DP QPSK modulation, and advanced electronic digital signal processing techniques integrated into the equipment, making networking simple for our customers. No one else can do this.

Nortel's Adaptive Optical Engine solutions allow you to instantly increase your traffic carrying capacity fourfold or tenfold without restructuring your network. Our plug, play and evolve optical technology lets you leverage your installed infrastructure to upgrade quickly and cost-effectively from 10G to 40G and 100G. Groundbreaking? Yes. Road-demolishing? Absolutely not.

So why make it hard when you can make it simple?

Drive your business forward along a future-proof migration path to 100G with the Nortel 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine.

What do I need?

The 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine

Increase your network's capacity to support more subscribers and more applications the simple way - Nortel's exclusive, ingenious 40G/100G solutions provide full compatibility with today's 10G systems to derive a far-reaching bandwidth solution. All you need are two high speed cards and our Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 shelf to get 40G or 100G.

Here's what you'll get:

  • Increased (4x or 10x) capacity - using the same infrastructure
  • The demise of ripping and replacing for faster optical networks
  • No extensive network re-engineering

Nortel uses it to get the job done, so your network stays relevant - today and tomorrow.

News

Nortel Unveils Industry's First Commercially Available 100G Optical Solution, Verizon First in the World to Deploy 100G for Live In-Service Customer Network
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Nortel Achieves 12,000km 40G Milestone on Reliance Globalcom Submarine Cable
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Virgin Media Quadruples Bandwidth in Irish Undersea Link With Nortel 40G Submarine Solution
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Nortel Completes World’s Longest Distance 100G Trials With Telstra
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Case Study

Virgin Media Entertains New Service Options With Nortel 40G
Virgin Media - the British television, broadband, and mobile and fixed-line telephone giant - is relying on Nortel 40G solutions to meet soaring demands for bandwidth and deliver innovative new services. Virgin Media is realizing a four-fold increase in bandwidth and has already more than doubled the speed of its fastest service package. All with minimal changes to the existing network, less cost and complexity than competitive solutions and a simple upgrade path to 100G.
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Demo
Experience 40G

See the value that 40G networking brings. This demo uses real Internet statistics to illustrate the effects of network congestion, slow response times and packet loss on the user experience, and shows the dramatic improvements offered by a Nortel 40G solution.
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Video
Nortel's 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine is a revolutionary technology platform that enables both 40Gbps and 100Gbps transmission over today's existing infrastructures, increasing capacity 4 and 10-fold respectively without complex network re-engineering, delivering the simplest migration path from 10G to 40G to 100G.

Global Megatrends Driving Optical Innovation
Learn how the new economy and new business models, consumer necessity for devices and connectivity, and demands for HD video are accelerating bandwidth growth and driving further innovation in optical networking. Philippe Morin, President of Nortel Metro Ethernet Networks, presents at Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) 2009. This video runs approximately 32 minutes.
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Literature

Solving the 100G transmission challenge Learn the business and technical drivers behind 100G and find out how your network today can be made ready to support 100G in the near future.
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Cost Considerations for 40G Written by Michael Howard, principal analyst and co-founder of Infonetics Research, you will find answers to key 40G questions.
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