Two Chinese organizations have deployed Nortel Networks' metro network equipment to boost their data capacity, the Canadian equipment vendor said on March 27.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange and the National Bureau of Statistics of China have both selected Nortel's OPTera Metro 5200 solutions, for an undisclosed sum.
Nortel said its Multiservice Platform, which has been deployed by both institutions, is at the heart of a new metro optical network linking the Shanghai Stock Exchange's three major business sites.
The new optical backbone will use dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology to fully utilize existing fiber and will reduce switch-over time on fault, Nortel said, as well as improve the exchange's risk management capacity.
Two local area network sites of the National Bureau of Statistics in Beijing have also been connected by Nortel via two OPTera Metro 5200 lines. Nortel said the new network would reliably and rapidly distribute an "enormous" flow of statistics data between the sites.
"Nortel Networks hopes to continue its close relationship with a wide range of industries in China to deploy advanced and reliable solutions and provide an essential foundation for growth of China's information industry," Robert Mao, president and chief executive, Nortel Networks China, said in a statement.
The OPTera Metro 5200 solution provides a metro optical platform capable of carrying 10 gigabits of data per second. Nortel said it is designed to make metro networks more efficient and easier to deploy while enabling delivery of high-bandwidth services in metropolitan areas.
( March 28, 2002)
