Nortel Networks Products Used in Logix Communications Products

Logix Communications (Wiltshire, UK) is using Nortel Networks (New York, NY)10 Gbps (billion of bits per second) and 2.5 Gbps optical networking products to provide customers with networking backbone networks. The network connects its residential and business customers to two 2.5 Gbps (OC-48) rings, linked by a 10 Gbps (OC-192) linear interconnection that will accommodate the rapid bandwidth growth in this Oklahoma City. Nortel Networks' Integrated Network Management (INM) solution manages the new network.

Logix Communications' network supplied by Nortel Networks will include a 4-fiber ring network that allows 50 milliseconds restoration in case of a fiber cut. The network will initially operate at 160 Gbps but can be easily upgraded by adding more wavelengths (different light colors to transmit information within a fiber). Nortel is currently deploying systems capable of operating at 320 Gbps—equivalent to more than 4 million simultaneous voice conversations occurring over a single pair of fiber strands—and offers an industry-leading Bit Error Rate of 10-15 on its 10 Gbps platform, which is 1,000 times better than existing networks.