Nortel Wins Two More Scholastic Customers

Communications Today, July 23, 2002

Nortel [NT] has been rather active procuring education-related customers recently, inking two more on Monday - University of Miami and Olin College. Those schools have selected Nortel's metro optical and VoIP products, respectively, to enhance the learning process and decrease communications costs.

The University of Miami will use Nortel's Optera Metro 3500 multiservice platform to provide faster information sharing and collaboration on academic research ranging from diabetes to ice flows. The network, based on next-gen SONET, will connect three south Florida campuses and in addition, the University intends to establish an optical equipment lab dedicated to "hands on" instruction.

Nortel's offering for Olin College includes the Passport 8600 Layers 2-7 intelligent routing switch for data traffic management and intelligent content switching. It also includes Nortel's Succession Communication Server for Enterprise 1000 (CSE 1000) for secure IP telephony.