China Netcom selected Nortel Networks for a national optical transmission backbone. The contract covers the deployment of two long-haul optical rings. The first ring will link the cities of Shanghai, Nanjing, Hefei, Wuhan, Changsha, Guangzhou, Fuzhou and Hangzhou. The other ring is expected to connect the eastern cities of Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xinyang, Jinan and Qingdao, and integrate with China Netcom’s existing optical backbones in northern China. China Netcom will deploy Nortel Networks’ 10Gbps OPTera Long Haul 1600 Optical Line System and OPTera Connect DX optical switch. In addition, China Netcom will deploy OPTera Connect HDX switches in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Wuhan. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- Nortel Networks noted that has announced more than 50 contracts for 10 Gbps and DWDM deployments in China.
- Last year, China’s State Council split up of China Telecom, China’s largest fixed line operator with about 140 million subscribers, into two regional companies. China Netcom retained the assets in North China’s Beijing and Tianjin municipalities, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Hebei and Shanxi provinces, Northeast China’s Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, Central China’s Henan Province and East China’s Shandong Province. It also incorporated the facilities of China Jitong Network Communications Co Ltd.