Telstra and Nortel work together to finish the longest 100G trials in the world

With the use of Nortels highly innovative super-fast optical transport technology, the incumbent Australian telecoms provider, Telstra has successfully ended testing a 100Gbps trial using its own fibre optic broadband network over an incredible total distance of 2038 kilometers.

A transfer of data between Adelaide and Sydney, which spanned more than 3370 kilometers, was also successfully completed at a speed of 40Gbps during trials that were held back in July.

Nortel’s ability to provide both the fastest and most cost effective broadband service currently available at the moment was proven following the 40G and 100G trials, which were understood to have achieved the longest ever un-regenerated transfer of  data over these kind of distances with this technology.

Telstra and many other broadband providers will be able to vastly improve the satisfaction of its customers with this new solution and will have the chance to deliver a huge range of managed services and application whilst offering them at much lower cost to the end user.

The vice president of Carrier Network, Nortel Asia, Anthony McLachlan said “The success of the trial builds on Nortel’s leading 40G technology and we are proud that Telstra has given us the opportunity to prove in a real network what others are only talking about regarding 100G. During the trial, the Nortel 100G solution allowed Telstra to redefine the value of its extensive fibre infrastructure with a tenfold increase in capacity – compared to that of existing 10G networks – and made the Telstra infrastructure the fastest of its kind globally over anywhere near this distance.”

Michael Rocca, the managing director of Networks & Services Group at Telstra said “These trials with Nortel demonstrate that our existing network is capable of transporting even larger amounts of network traffic without incurring the cost of major equipment and infrastructure upgrades. Of course, they also contribute to the development of technology that will eventually benefit not only Australian consumers but also the worldwide telecommunications industry.”

Source – PR-Inside