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Nortel Networks Corp. announced Tuesday that it has added Fibre Channel storage over synchronous optical networks (SONET) to its product offerings, allowing carriers that use the company's optical switches to offer customers the ability to transmit block-level data over thousands of miles for replication and backup.

The Province of Ontario has announced plans to build out one of the largest optical networks for its research and education institutions and has called upon a Canadian giant to get the ball rolling.

A telecommunications industry looking for the light at the end of the tunnel converged in Atlanta last week at the annual SuperComm conference and trade show.

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Nortel Networks Inc. unveiled a series of components intended to boost performance and decrease costs for metropolitan optical networks during a conference of fibre-optic engineers in Baltimore, Md., on Monday.

The most important optical tool in breaking the metro bandwidth bottleneck is the fibre.