Nortel Connectivity: The Next Generation Network
Ms. Ramya S. Gowda,
Lecturer and consultant, Sikkim Manipal University, Bangalore-08
raashiramya@gmail.com
Abstract
In this paper we discuss about how Nortel can
overtake the existing Internet connections. Today’s
consumers demand more wireless connectivity in their
personal and business lives. Research says that
consumers are willing to pay extra for faster wireless
connections in more places It is observed that Nortel
connectivity is 100 times faster than the existing
networks. It can be proved by showing the features and
advantages that it is worth adopting this network over
the existing and helps in almost all fields where
internet connections are used. Wireless being one of
the major successes of network has given many
advantages to the business and network field. The
Nortel WiMAX solution provides seamless mobility to
end users in their homes, offices and on the go. Nortel
being one of the important inventions of wireless has
proved to be the drastic change of Network
connections. The applications of Nortel are
heterogeneous and vast. The Nortel provides solutions
that comprises of voice, video, data and multimedia
along with mobility. The gradual change in the need
and necessity of mankind has lead to the invention of
such a high speed, powerful and dynamic connectivity.
Nortel Networks is an industry leader and innovator
focused on transforming how the world communicates
and exchanges information in a better and faster
means. The company is supplying its service provider
and enterprise customers with communications
technology and infrastructure to enable many of the
above mentioned applications.
Key Words- Nortel Networks, Connectivity,
Wireless, features, advantages, WiMAX, applications.
1. Introduction
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering
communications capabilities that make the promise of
Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our
next-generation technologies, for both service provider
and enterprise networks, support multimedia and
business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are
designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency,
speed and performance by simplifying networks and
connecting people to the information they need, when
they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150
countries around the world (4).
The internet, broad band access, camera phones, voice
over-IP, instant messaging, social networking, video
uploading- all make obvious the increasing importance
of communication and connectivity in our daily lives.
But the reason behind addiction to share information
every moment of every day is the means for business
and organization. The nature of decisions the
companies have to make to ensure this connectedness,
to know the opportunities and challenges and to know
the implications of employees, senior managers and
CEOs will become a competitive advantage (2). The
Nortel answers all these questions by employing certain
tools like IDC to conduct global study of working
people. The study focused on quantifying the state of
today's connectedness, tracking its acceptance and use
across devices and applications as well as determining
the pace of its growth and impact on the enterprise.
Nortel’s Concept of Unwired Enterprise gives a light on
delivering a wireless solution with the performance to
allow communications over the wireless network. This
builds the bridge between wired and wireless networks,
and between onsite and offsite mobility. It gives
universal mobility for continuous connectivity.
Wireless handsets and mobility become the major form
of communication due to which the role of enterprise
will change. For e.g. the desk phone of the future will
become an “intelligent hub” which will automatically
sense the user presence and are compatible among them
and get connected to corporate network. The personnel
devices which use different access technologies will get
connected, including laptops, wireless handsets, and
iphones and internet tablets.
2. Background
Till today it is believed that the number of networks
available in the market is a competitive edge to one
another and one network is faster over the other
network. The Evolution of Nortel Connectivity has
proven this theory wrong since Nortel connectivity is
100 times faster than the existing networks. The
emergence of Wireless networks has led various
improvements in the world of networks. Nortel is one
of the best outcomes of wireless networks by making
wireless connectivity available everywhere at once, a
wide variety of devices including PDAs, digital music
players, laptops, digital cameras and other equipment
will be able to remain continually connected to the rest
of the online world, no matter where they are.

Nortel successfully use WiMAX to deliver broadband

voice and data services to the country’s remote northern
TOHUKU region (1).Nortel recently ran an extensive
mobile WiMAX trial in Australia. Riding on the
growing success of WiMAX, Nortel has formed
numerous alliances to stimulate the development of
end-to-end wireless solutions. Nortel is also leading
developments in LTE (Long Term Evolution) and
UMB (Ultra Mobile Broadband), two other
technologies that also promise improvements in Nortel
4G services. In a world first, for e.g. Nortel UMB
equipment proved capable of carrying a live call
combining VoIP and high-definition video. And while
WiMAX is deployable now, Nortel’s involvement with
all the technologies will ensure a smooth migration path
for providers of wireless services. While 3G mobile
services are rapidly coming into their own as next-
generation phone networks, 4G services take the
wireless paradigm to a new level. It has been proved
that WiMAX technology works as intended, what
remains now is simply rolling out the right technology,
and implementing the services that will help make the
hyper connected world an everyday reality(1). The
Nortel CSN (Connectivity Service Network) solution
caters to carriers of various wireless experiences, from
new entrants who have minimal operations
backgrounds, to existing operations backgrounds, to
existing operators looking to augments their current
services (3).
The recent trend of Wireless services and need of
fastest networks has made Nortel a useful and accepting
connectivity of the future. The emergence of Internet
with Wireless connectivity has made Nortel: The next
generation network.
3. Motivation
It has been shown by researchers that Nortel’s 4G
vision helps in meeting the connectivity demands of the
Five billion connection points (1).
Figure 1. WiMAX CSN architecture (Source [3])
WiMAX CSN Architecture shows that CSN and IMS
network can be put together to obtain service and
access variety of information. The flexibility in
integration of both the elements from other applications
in order to obtain identical information such as access
type, presence, location and device type-to optimize the
experience for end users. The IMS solution offers offer
dynamic levels of service for individual sessions (3).
This diagram shows that how the different gateways are
connected with the internet which increases the
capacity of the networks to fetch data from various
sources and also various path. This increases the speed
of the information retrieval to the end users.
4. Features
• The Nortel’s WiMAX solution brings advanced
techniques and features like Quality of Service,
Security and Policy functions, to enable operators to
provide simple data services alongside.
• Nortel gives the feature of mobility in WiMAX
which gives a new way to mobile broadband services.
• It provides Authentication, accounting and
authorization for the management of user’s service
profiles and data records for billing WiMAX
subscribers (3). It is normally called as AAA.
• It gives full fledge facility of a Server, Firewall,
Cache, WAN Gateway, Virtual Private Network,
Wireless Application Protocol, Real-Time streaming
Protocol, Domain Name Service and Intrusion
Detection Server load balancing (5). The firewall has
got multi-layer coverage checking for highly intelligent
hackers and intruders.
• It helps in providing starting IP Address look-up and to render real time services. Nortel’s solution is
allocation of WiMAX Mobile Stations. By the use highly flexible and scalable and grows as and when
of DNS/DHCP server. organization expands.
• It helps in optimization of Response Time,
Bandwidth, Maximum connections etc. 7. Conclusion
• Home Agent provides the functionality that allows
traffic to mobile devices to be routed transparently Nortel technologies are designed to eliminate
to the ASN (Access Service Network) Gateway the obstacle to efficiency, speed and performance by
and is also the host of WiFi access points (3). simplifying the networks and connecting the people to
the information they need, when they need it. The next
5. Advantages generation technologies should act as both service
provider and enterprise networks. It should support
multimedia and business applications. This is done by
Nortel‘s WiMAX solution leads the industry in
cost efficiency, dependability, adaptability to market Nortel technologies due to which the reliability and
performance is increased. The simplified networks
need, performance and carrier-hosted solution.
provides the fastest means of extracting the information
• Nortel provides full support for full mobility across
they need which makes the Nortel network 100 times
the WiMAX network via Mobile IP (MIP).
faster than the exiting one. Hence Nortel can be
• Nortel CSN, in conjunction with the ASN, can concluded as the Next Generation Network.
interact with open standard BTS.
• Nortel provides a complete integrated solution,
services and applications.
• Nortel’s WiMAX portfolio is derived from a heritage 8. References
of wireless experience, industry leading
technological innovation, and best-in-class partner 1. Jay Huang. Nortel’s 4G Vision - Meeting the
relationships that enable operators to enter the next Connectivity Demands of Five Billion Connection
generation of mobile services and broadband Points. May 21 2007.
wireless.
2. http://www.nortel.com/promotions/idc_paper/index.h
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A Nortel application consists of Voice, Video, aper.
data and multimedia with mobility.
• VOICE: The application with respect to voice is 3. www.nortel.com/solutions/wimax/collateral/n
Voice over the IP networks (VoIP). Nortel is one of
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the major leaders in VoIP solutions in wireless.
• VIDEO: It helps in the next generation applications 4. Nortel News Releases on Nortel Connectivity
of the voice like Video telephony, video conference,
and Applications Solutions for Service Providers at
Video Streaming and Mobile TV.
Broadband World Forum Europe, Solutions for the
• DATA and MULTIMEDA: It helps in instant
messaging, E-mail, and Web browsing, audio/video age of hyperconnectivity delivered now. October 5,
conferencing and Instant File Transfer. 2007.
• Other customized applications such as Hotlining and
Prepaid are also available with the WiMAX 5. Nortel Networks Product and Solutions,
solutions. Reference Guide for the enterprise customers. End-
• Achieves the property of RELIABILITY and User edition, January 2002.
PERFORMANCE: the WiMAX network is built on
carrier grade platforms. The network provides
increased capacity, quality, security and overall user
experience. End-to-end QoS is maintained
consistently throughout the network.
• It is capable of gaining savings as the network
expands. Less cost of own due to investment
management with existing infrastructure and expands