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August 7, 2001 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Southern Cross Cables Limited (southerncrosscables.com), has selected Nortel Networks (nortelnetworks.com) to supply ultra long haul dense wave division multiplex optical transmission equipment for the terrestrial portion of a 30,500-kilometer submarine cable network linking the U.S. mainland to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji beginning in the third quarter of this year.
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Southern Cross will deploy Nortel Networks OPTera Long Haul 4000 Optical
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Line System to provide high-speed, high-capacity data connectivity between
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cable landing sites on the U.S. mainland. Nortel says the OPTera Long Haul
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4000 is the industry’s first open 10 Gbps optical backbone to break the
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4,000-kilometer distance barrier without opto-electronic regeneration.
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“Southern Cross is committed to making the high-bandwidth broadband
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experience a reality for Australasian Internet users and their Internet
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Service Providers,” said Fiona Beck, CEO, Southern Cross. “Nortel Networks
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success in building high-performance, all-optical networks assures us that
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we will be able to extend our market leadership by providing bottleneck-free
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connections via the U.S. to the global Internet, and by offering new,
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value-added services faster than ever before.”
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Nortel Networks OPTera Long Haul 4000 Optical Line System is designed to
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help carriers be more responsive to the increasing appetite for bandwidth in
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global markets. With its rapid wavelength provisioning, OPTera Long Haul
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4000 provides carriers with the ability to deploy new services quickly.
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“Nortel Networks cost-effective, flexible, and easily deployable solution
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will allow Southern Cross to offer next generation customer services without
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bandwidth limitations or time-to-market constraints,” said Greg Mumford, who
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leads the optical Internet business for Nortel Networks. “At the same time,
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this increased all-optical reach technology is a fundamental enabler for the
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purely photonic networks of the future.”
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The OPTera Long Haul 4000 optical gateway provides an open interface to the
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Internet, connecting directly to data traffic via 2.5 or 10 Gbps interfaces.
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DWDM transmitters and broadband receivers feature built-in error rate
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monitoring as well as optical restoration. In addition, OPTera Long Haul
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4000 provides 100 percent add/drop capability and wavelength management.
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Nortel Networks has also won several high profile optical networking
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contracts for customers in Asia, including Telstra and Cable & Wireless
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Optus in Australia, and some 29 contracts in China for 10G and DWDM optical
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solutions spanning more than 40,000 kilometers.
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Southern Cross Cables is an independent company based in Bermuda, with
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offices in New Zealand and Australia, that provides optical networks
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connecting Australasia to parts of the United States.
