Rogers Cable, Canada’s largest cable television company, has selected Nortel as its primary softswitch vendor to support digital phone service, which it plans to begin launching Digital Phone service in mid-2005. Rogers passes 3.3 million homes in Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and has 69% basic cable penetration of its homes passed. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Rogers Digital Phone service will leverage the company’s DOCSIS broadband cable network combined with Nortel’s Communication Server (CS) 2000 – Compact — a softswitch that is PacketCable qualified in both North America (CableLabs) and Europe (EUR-Cable Certification Board). Nortel will also provide Rogers with Nuera’s ORCA BTX-4K, a high-density media gateway providing PacketCable compliant trunking access to the PSTN.
Rogers’ optical transport network is based on Nortel Optical Metro 5200s and Optical Metro 3500s for transport of voice traffic.
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