Capital and Operational Savings Enabled via New Products of Data
Portfolio
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - May 20, 2009) - Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)
(OTCBB: NRTLQ) today introduced new data products that are faster,
more secure and less expensive than competing solutions, and are
specifically designed to support the needs of today's real-time
business applications.
Nortel's diverse portfolio of new products allows enterprises to
build networks that are more efficient and effective. The latest
advancements in technology and techniques, energy-efficient hardware,
and innovative features all feed into the creation of a network that
minimizes capital equipment and costs, optimizes all available
resources, and reduces operational burden and expense while providing
the foundation for unified communications.
"Nortel's relentless drive to create innovation on all fronts - in
technology, in products, in energy efficiency and with their
customers is why we continue to deploy and recommend their voice and
data solutions. Nortel offered us the architecture, the management
and the economic model to achieve resiliency, ease-of-use and cost
effectiveness," said Pierre-Eric Belzile, executive director,
Information and Communication Technology, Montreal Canadiens(2).
"Our commitment to our customers is unwavering. We are continuing to
innovate and deliver the solutions that improve the cost structure,
functionality and reliability of enterprise networks," said Joel
Hackney, president, Enterprise Solutions, Nortel. "We remain at the
vanguard of solving customers' problems and meeting their needs with
solutions built for speed, reliability and value. To that end, we are
introducing a number of new products purpose-built to support the
future of communications."
New Solutions Drive Customer Momentum
Built for real-time applications, Nortel's data portfolio enables
enterprises to simplify and increase the tempo of their operations.
Based on Nortel's data foundational principles of resiliency,
efficiency, performance, security, and multivendor solutions, the
company unveiled new products to streamline operations to help give
businesses a competitive advantage. These build on Nortel's trend of
delivering innovation into its recently refreshed data portfolio -
third-party proven to provide 20 times the performance, seven times
the resiliency at up to half the total cost of ownership(3) of
competing solutions.
The Virtual Services Platform 9000 (VSP 9000) is Nortel's latest
high-performance, next-generation, core data network solution.
Offering twice the performance of competing solutions(4), It is
purpose-built for mission-critical campus networks and data centers
that require ultra-reliability, flexibility, and virtual network
services. The VSP 9000 enables enterprises to realize the
efficiencies of a simplified infrastructure that can virtualize
elements of the network to fully and efficiently utilize servers as
well as the network capabilities, reducing the strain on personnel
and resources. (Please see companion announcement, Nortel Unveils
Next-Gen Core Enterprise Network Solution).
Augmenting the company's line of Secure Routers is the Nortel Secure
Router 2330, which delivers integrated routing, WAN, security and
voice gateway services for small and mid-size branches. The new,
cost-effective 2330 platform, along with Nortel's Secure Router 4134,
also supports survivable SIP services, crucial for IP telephony
deployments where voice communications must be ensured in the case of
IP WAN or voice call server failures.
"As a global, leading-edge manufacturer, the reliability of our
network is critical to our day-to-day operations. Nortel has served
us well to date with their portfolio and we are excited about the
prospects of Nortel's Secure Router 2330. We see this platform giving
us new deployment options with its cost-effective modular design and
integrated voice capabilities," said Steven Lee, network engineer,
National Semiconductor.
Unified Communications Management (UCM) is a new Nortel solution that
consolidates management, configuration, operations and deployment of
UC solutions to provide more centralized, integrated control of voice
and data infrastructure. The UCM solution centralizes management of
heterogeneous network assets to simplify network operations, which
results in lower costs and a more effective unified communications
system.
Kevin Harshaw, senior director, Olympic Operations for Bell explained
the importance of the UCM portfolio: "Given the critical nature of
running the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games(2),
Bell must be able to effectively manage and proactively respond to
issues before they impact network performance. Nortel's Visualization
Performance and Fault Manager, with its configurable polling, trap
reporting and notification features, allows us to do just that. Not
only does it provide a centralized, UC management solution that helps
discover and connect infrastructure equipment and end-nodes
throughout the network, but it also helps us reduce operating
expenses. Its robust management features make it a key element in
allowing Bell to deliver flawless network coverage for the Games."
Nortel's Unwired Enterprise vision centers around the new Wireless
Local Area Network 8100 (WLAN 8100) series of routers. This solution
will provide seamless integration of wired and unwired network
elements to help create a more seamless communications experience for
IT managers and end users. Based on the 802.11n protocol, the
solution combines the latest industry standards with a truly unified
architecture - resulting in lower total cost, greater capacity,
performance and coverage - as well as a simplified infrastructure
that delivers secure, universal mobility.
Carol Barber is executive director and chief technology officer for
the Western New York Regional Information Center, an organization
that in conjunction with the Boards of Cooperative Education
Services, serves nearly 100 school districts in New York State and
supports more than 95,000 computers: "The Western New York Regional
Information Center has been a Nortel WLAN customer for many years,
and we are excited about their next-generation WLAN 8100 solution. We
plan to trial this exciting new technology in our network later this
year," Barber said. "When Nortel first released its vision of the
Unwired Enterprise, it really hit home with us. Their strategy for
true wired and wireless integration resonates with our view of where
the market is heading."
Nortel's recently launched Ethernet Routing Switch 5600 is the first
solution to reach terabit speeds for stackable switches. The switches
offer more bandwidth capacity, greater performance and increased
resiliency than competitive solutions. Increased port density and
greater stacking capabilities also add to the value-proposition, as
fewer switches are required.
In addition, the company recently introduced the Nortel Secure Router
8000 Series to provide feature-rich IP routing, flexible wide-area
networking and carrier-class reliability. Designed for enterprise
data centers, and core and head-end routing applications, this
solution delivers the high-performance, resiliency and security that
enterprises need to meet growing bandwidth demands.
Demonstrating the company's leadership in comprehensive network
access security solutions, Nortel also recently launched its Identity
Engines portfolio. Providing network identity management, the
Identity Engines solution augments Nortel's existing Network Access
Control (NAC) technology by adding a new set of capabilities
including enterprise-wide 802.1X support, reporting, identity-aware
networking and centralized policy decision across LAN, WLAN and VPN.
Identity-based network access control restricts access to the
network, services and applications based on the user, time of day,
health of the device, network access method and other variables in an
automated, centralized environment.
"Complexity costs enterprises more than related expenses, it also
robs them of productivity, effectiveness and the ability to meet
their business case," said Hackney. "Nortel has been at the forefront
in delivering unified communications solutions, so it is highly
appropriate that we would continue to innovate to deliver the
solutions that operate with greater performance, reliability and
control than other solutions."
About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications
capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality
for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service
provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and
business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to
help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance
by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they
need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150
countries around the world. For more information, visit Nortel on the
Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit
www.nortel.com/news.
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projections about the operating environment, economies and markets in
which Nortel operates. These statements are subject to important
assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which are difficult to predict
and the actual outcome may be materially different from those
contemplated in forward-looking statements. For additional
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Nortel's Annual Report on Form10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q
and other securities filings with the SEC. Unless otherwise required
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obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
(1)Nortel, the Nortel logo and the Globemark are trademarks of Nortel
Networks.
(2)This is a 3rd party link as described in our Web linking
practices.
(3)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).
(4)The performance comparison is based upon Nortel's model VSP 9000
product which achieves throughput of 970 Mpps through ten output
slots, in comparison to Cisco's model 7010 product which achieves
throughput of 480 Mpps through eight output slots, as reported on the
product data sheet on Cisco's publicly available website. "The
performance comparison is based upon Nortel's model VSP 9000 product
which achieves throughput of 1,700 Mpps through ten output slots per
chassis running in network high availability mode using Nortel's
Switch Clustering feature for both Layer 2 and/or Layer 3 traffic
flows, in comparison to Juniper's model EX 8208 product in high
availability mode which achieves throughput of 970 Mpps and does not
have a feature similar to Nortel's Switch Clustering, but rather
depends on Layer 3 protocols such as OSPF with ECMP to load balance
only Layer 3 IP traffic flows, as reported on the product data sheet
on Juniper's publicly available website.
Contacts:
Nortel
Pat Cooper
425-450-7523
pat.cooper@nortel.com
Nortel
Greta Brown
+44-(0)1628-432968
gretab@nortel.com
www.nortel.com
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