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Find out what Nortel is doing in a wide range of network areas. For example...
1-Meg Modem vs. 56-kbps access
In this demo, visitors can view how Nortel's 1-Meg Modem delivers both high-speed data and voice simultaneously over a single telephone line. The current 1-Meg Modem enables web surfers to download data and video at line speeds of up to 960 kilobits per second -- about 17 times faster than today's most advanced analog modems.
Advanced Components R&D Laboratory
Nortel's Advanced Components R&D Laboratory researches, designs, and fabricates the high-speed electronic circuits and optoelectronic components that are critical elements in high-capacity transmission networks.
This work, for example, enabled Nortel to become the first vendor to bring 10-gigabit-per-second transport capabilities to market, and will be key to delivering even higher bit rates in the future. It also is enabling dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) for running multiple wavelengths down a fiber. The combination of these two technologies, and others under development in the lab, will push long-haul capacities beyond a terabit (a trillion bits per second). These capacities will be necessary to support the explosive growth of Internet traffic and Nortel's Webtone vision.
Corporate Design House
Nortel's Corporate Design Group (CDG) creates conspicuous new product direction matched to customer and user needs in the areas of communication appliances, infrastructure product, network management, and communications services. The ground-breaking research techniques it has developed ensure that Nortel continues to deliver innovative, high-value products and services that excite the customer's imagination. To achieve market leadership, CDG develops and evaluates product concepts and prototypes that capture user needs and values and, at the same time, exploit the latest technological advances.
CDG consists of experts working to establish Nortel's functional excellence in a number of disciplines, including interaction and visual interface design, user needs assessment and market testing, rapid prototyping, industrial design, and mechanical design.
Visitors will be invited to tour CDG and see demonstrations of:
- new-generation telemedicine,
- next-generation network management user interface design, and
- end-user devices.
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