Nortel Networks Corp. has introduced new optical technology that it says can quadruple network speed, giving carriers more power to meet the Internet's increasingly voracious appetite for more bandwidth.
The Toronto-based telecommunications equipment maker said Wednesday that trials of its 40G/100G Adaptive Optical Engine are under way. The company said the technology will allow transmission at speeds of 40 gigabytes per second and 100 gigabytes per second, far above the current industry top standard of 10 gigabytes per second.
"We are seeing significant demands for bandwidth as a result of business-to-business virtual private networks and the conversion from analog to high-definition video delivery over the desktop," Philippe Morin, president of Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks, said in a statement.
"In addition, every operator's plan to deliver new revenue-generating services such as Internet-protocol TV, or to sell the latest video-enabled consumer devices, will come to nothing if these exploding bandwidth demands aren't met. With the coming era of hyperconnectivity, where every device that should be connected to the network will be connected, the staggering bandwidth demands will only continue upwards."
The Nortel fibre optic technology is based around its Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 optical networking platform.
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