Success Story

Nortel Networks
is in the data center
Nortel Networks takes full advantage of its own High-Performance
Data Center solutions to simplify and secure its network,
improve performance, and dramatically reduce expenses.

“We have over 16,000 partners
that are named users that
interact with our infrastructure
on a routine basis…so the
Contivity Secure IP Services
Gateways are a key component
of our infrastructure and a
key component of how we
allow Nortel Networks to
operate effectively.”
Richard Ricks, Chief Information
Officer of Nortel Networks, will tell
you that the newly announced Nortel
Networks High-Performance Data
Center solution portfolio comprises
the very latest innovations in connec-
tivity, content management, and secu-
rity. It provides enhanced IP-based
data center capabilities and delivers
significant capital and operating
savings.
Richard Ricks knows. Because Ricks
is a High-Performance Data Center
customer.
“Eighteen months ago,” says Ricks,
“we embarked upon a program of
data-center consolidation. We had
approximately 120 data centers
globally with servers and storage
distributed everywhere.”
Ricks and his staff selected a network
design that would allow Nortel
Networks to consolidate down to 10
global data centers supporting some
1,100 applications worldwide.
An ambitious plan, to be sure.
One that today has been realized.
And in the course of doing so, says
Ricks, “we’ve been able to reduce our
server infrastructure by 6,400 devices,
from a base of 12,000.”
The Nortel Networks High-
Performance Data Center offers a
comprehensive range of capabilities:
• High-availability content storage,
caching, distribution, management,
and accounting
• Web switching with intelligent load-
balancing of servers and devices
• Intelligent routing and redirection
for premium response times and
resource utilization
• High-speed optical connectivity
across wide area networks or
between data centers
• Branch office and road warrior-to-
headquarters virtual private network
connectivity
• Complete security protection with
no performance penalty.
The High-Performance Data Center
portfolio takes full advantage of the
following Nortel Networks technologies:
• OPTera Metro 3500 Multiservice
Platform—supports a mix of voice,
video, and data traffic from a
common platform that is one of
the most compact, flexible, and
cost-effective in the industry.
• OPTera Metro 5200 Multiservice
Platform—harnesses the power of
dense wavelength division multi-
plexing (DWDM) to transparently
deliver high-bandwidth network
services across an open, scalable
optical transport platform.
• Alteon Web Switch—provides
high-availability traffic management
by filtering and switching traffic
based on application and content
information.
• Alteon Content Cache—stores Enterprise Content Delivery
frequently requested content closer Networks efficiently and cost-effec-
to users to improve bandwidth tively deliver massive volumes of static
utilization and make it cost-effective and streaming-media content over the
to deliver high-value streaming Web for such enterprise applications
media applications. as eLearning, Web site hosting, and
• Alteon Switched Firewall—provides corporate Webcasts.
multi-gigabit firewall service for Ricks points out that a high-perfor-
tough perimeter defense without mance data center solution has allowed
performance penalty. him to take costs out of his network
• Contivity Secure IP Services and to better utilize and better manage
Gateways—provide secure IP assets—for example, the corporation
tunneling from customer premises now runs multiple applications on a
to the data center. single server.
• Passport 8600 Routing Switch— So when Richard Ricks affirms,
provides high-capacity, high-avail- “The products that Nortel Networks
ability, intelligent traffic manage- provides that enable a high-perfor-
ment with the level of QoS required mance data center are second to none,”
for mission-critical applications. he speaks from experience.
Nortel Networks High-Performance
Data Center Solutions are designed
to support:
Secure High-Performance Data
Centers enable enterprises to confi-
dently and confidentially rely on crit-
ical IP-based business applications
while benefiting from the consolida-
tion of servers and network resources
and utilizing high-performance security
without performance penalties.
Optical Ethernet Data Centers
provide LAN-speed, high availability
interconnect service between data
centers for storage networking,
data center consolidation, or
backup/recovery.
“We leverage our content caching and redirect
capabilities as a key component of our Webcasting
infrastructure. We did over 1,200 Webcasts last year;
we expect to do 4,000 this year. We expect to save over
$70 million through improved employee productivity
as well as travel cost reduction.”
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