Nortel unveils enterprise network soln, VSP 9000

BANGALORE, INDIA: Nortel introduced virtual services platform (VSP) 9000 - the next-generation enterprise solution for core networks and data centres. The new platform helps companies realize the benefits of emerging virtualization technologies that require unparalleled reliability and flexibility, while providing over twice the performance compared to the primary competition.

Joel Hackney , president, Enterprise Solutions, Nortel, said: "Business continuity, network flexibility and cost reduction are the top factors that enterprises identify as their most prevalent concerns today. Businesses are taxed with the increased network capacity requirements of today - and more importantly, anticipating tomorrow's demands - especially as they embrace unified communications. Given the current state of diminished IT resources and skyrocketing network demands, the new VSP 9000 can give businesses a competitive advantage from a networking standpoint."

Nortel has partnered with VMware to provide network infrastructure that maximizes the performance, availability and resilience of their industry-leading server virtualization solution.

Shekar Ayyar, vice president, infrastructure alliances, VMware, said: "We are glad to see Nortel working to complement the industry-leading VMware platform with a solution like VSP 9000, which is aimed at improving uptime, availability and mobility of applications running on VMware vSphere 4, the first operating system for building the internal cloud. Nortel's solution can help customers accelerate their virtualization adoption as they move toward cloud computing to achieve greater efficiency, control and choice in their datacenters.

The VSP 9000 supports up to 720 10GE port density per rack, supporting up to 720 10Gbps Ethernet ports per rack and up to 27Tbps switching capacity in a single chassis, or over 100Tbps in a quad switch cluster.