Nortel powers Cox's business services

Susan Rush
From the October 8 edition of CED Broadband Direct

Cox Communications Inc. was looking for a way to reduce network costs for its business customers by consolidating its triple play service traffic on a common optical Ethernet infrastructure. The MSO turned to Nortel Networks to make it happen.

Cox has deployed Nortel's OPTera Metro 3500 multiservice platform to enable the delivery of 10 megabits and 100 megabits per second Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet services to its enterprise customers in San Diego.

The optical Ethernet solution deployment will enable Cox's business customers to save as much as 50 percent on network costs, through the simplification and centralization of their networks, according to Marco Pagani, Nortel's Optical Ethernet president.

The OPTera Metro 35000, a next-generation SONET technology, incorporates resilient packet ring (RPR) technology. Four backbone RPR rings will provide Cox with an optical Ethernet packet network that covers most of metro San Diego.