Data Networking

Business Optimized Networking is Nortel's foundational data networking strategy that delivers simplified and optimized network infrastructure that is directly aligned to support an organizations core business and communication applications, services and processes. Business Optimized Networking provides customers:

• A reliable, high-performance, scalable converged IP core foundation
• High-quality access/services to extended enterprise locations/sites
• Ubiquitous, high-quality service for any mobile user, device or application
• Always-on, consistent access to business applications and services
• Optimized support multimedia, IP Telephony Unified Communications and customer business applications

By using a building block approach - Business Optimized Networking provides customers with an end-to-end blueprint for implementing the appropriate infrastructure across their enterprise Campus LAN, Branch locations, and Data Center networks as it makes sense for their business.

• Converge your core - As enterprise networks converge, they are being asked to handle more diverse network traffic with higher reliability and intelligence. Nortel's Ethernet Routing Switch Portfolio enables enterprise LANs to intelligently prioritize real-time business communications like voice, video, and multimedia services. This portfolio provides cost-per-gigabit of throughput that is up to five times less than the leading competitor.
• Extend your enterprise - Extending the same functionality and quality of service to branch locations that is available at the company's headquarters is an ongoing enterprise challenge. Nortel's Secure Router Portfolio tackles this issue by extending ""enterprise-quality"" communications tools and applications, like Unified Communications, to the branch office.
• Mobilize your employees - Today's mobile worker makes it crucial for enterprises to sustain employee productivity while personnel are on the go. Nortel's WLAN Portfolio provides a mobile access solution optimized to support the demands of VoIP and real-time multimedia services.
• Accelerate your applications - As workers become increasingly mobile and remote, enterprises must provide their employees with continuous access to business critical applications. The Nortel Application Accelerator enables companies to improve the performance of their centralized web-based applications.
• Secure and manage your infrastructure - A truly business optimized network must be secure and easy to manage from end to end. Nortel's Layered Defense approach to network security uniquely positions the company to help solve the security challenges of customers overall communications deployments.

Business Optimized Networking solution is comprised of:

• Ethernet Routing Switches, designed to securely deliver Layer 2 and 3 connectivity for converged networking.
• WLAN portfolio, which provides secure mobile networking, voice connectivity, featuring flexible seamless mobility across campus environment, and choices in deployment. This flexibility gives enterprise customers limitless options for growing their WLAN deployment and affords wireless service providers a multitude of new revenue opportunities.
• Secure Routers, which combine robust IP routing, flexible WAN connectivity and security in a single cost-effective device. Ideal for enterprise branch, remote or regional site environments, Nortel Secure Routers are optimized to deliver the low-latency, high packet throughput required by IP telephony and multimedia applications.
• Application Switches, which integrate routing and switching by forwarding traffic at layer 2 speed using layer 4-7 information. They are designed from the ground up to optimize networks for application performance.
• Security Solutions, which include solutions for secure network access, secure information access, secure multimedia, and secure WLAN, as well as services to help you reduce operational and capital costs, reduce your risk and release your resources to enable better efficiency.
• Network management solutions designed to ensure network resiliency and reduced total cost of ownership for enterprise customers.