Rascom’s is using the Adaptive Optical Engine from Nortel (News - Alert) to offer services at higher speeds and improved performance. The engine makes it possible to deliver 40G connectivity among sites in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Helsinki and Stockholm — reportedly the largest data pipelines in Eastern Europe.

 

“We selected Nortel's 40G solution because it was timely, simple and cost-effective to do so today,” said  Vitaly Ivanovich Kireev, general director of Rascom. “Our investment in this 40G network will enable Rascom to meet the growing bandwidth demand of our customers. We were the first company in Russia to build SDH and DWDM fiber-optic networks and we are still a leading innovator in both the Russian and European markets.”

 

With a simple installation of two 40G transponders per node, Rascom is able to meet increasing consumer demand for bandwidth-hungry applications such as Internet television, high-definition programming and maintain high service levels generated by rapidly growing corporate network traffic.

 

“Some experts predict that the Internet may be swamped with traffic in a few years if operators fail to upgrade their infrastructures in advance,” says Sorin Lupu, Eastern European markets leader at Nortel, in a statement. “The Nortel solution delivers competitive advantage for Rascom and other innovative operators of transport networks by modernising existing optical networks quickly and cost-effectively, optimizing management processes and quadrupling throughput.”

 

Rascom said that with Nortel 40G Adaptive Optical Engine it has increased available bandwidth four-fold without modifying network architecture, laying or renting new fiber. This helps the company to reduce the costs involved with fiber-optic network modernization.

 

Transponder cards incorporating the Nortel 40G Adaptive Optical Engine are deployed in the Optical Multiservice Edge (OME) 6500 and operate over a Nortel Common Photonic Layer (CPL) line system.

 

The solution can support data transfer rates of 40G over 10G networks and has unique and industry-first digital signal processing technology which eliminates the need for signal compensation and lowers related capital and operating costs at 10G, 40G and 100G in the future.

 

It has the ability to transfer both 10G and 40G optical signals over distances of 2000 km without in line dispersion compensation or regeneration.

 

Rascom uses Nortel's Optical Network Manager to conduct network wide administration, monitoring and planning from a single management centre at St. Petersburg. This enables rapid troubleshooting, fault resolution and traffic management with no need for technical personnel to visit individual network nodes.