Nortel Government Solutions, a U.S. company wholly owned by Nortel, has announced that its Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 has become the first 40G optical solution to achieve approved product listing status from the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Interoperability Testing Command (JITC).
Receipt of JITC certification allows Nortel's OME 6500 optical networking platform, which can increase network capacity four-fold to 40Gbps per wavelength, to be procured and deployed by Department of Defense agencies. Intelligence and civilian agencies can now reference the JITC's stringent information assurance and interoperability testing as part of their own procurement process.
Nortel's OME 6500 is a packet optical convergence platform that enables efficient aggregation, switching, transport and management of network traffic for a wide range of in-demand communications services. The solution converges multiple network layers to enable agencies to support circuit-based TDM private lines, optical services, packet transport, and transparent wavelength services – all on a single, compact platform. Government agencies can use this solution to streamline their networks and more efficiently deliver a rich variety of communications applications with substantially reduced infrastructure costs.
For multiservice nodal consolidation applications in large incumbent operators with either SDH or SONET networks, the OME 6500 has been demonstrated to provide up to 40 percent capital and operational savings over competing next-generation solutions. When compared against traditional networking solutions the OME 6500-based solution delivers even greater savings projections of up to 53 percent capital savings, 66 percent space savings and 75 percent power savings.
In addition to providing both cost efficiency and power conservation, the OME 6500 with the 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine is scalable and flexible.
