Bell Canada implements Nortel

BCE's Bell Canada phone company unit has bought a technology from Nortel Networks that lets telecom firms quadruple the capacity of their networks, states Reuters.

Bell Canada is using 40G optical technology from Nortel, North America's biggest maker of telephone equipment, in its Montreal-New York, Toronto-Chicago and Toronto-Montreal network traffic corridors. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The Nortel technology delivers speeds of 40Gbps, about four times faster than today's high-end networking speeds, over fibre optic cables thinner than a human hair.

Boston College in Chestnut Hill has deployed an Enterasys identity-based networking solution to automatically prioritise and secure more than 20 000 networked devices used by over 15 000 students and employees, states Earthtimes.

Enterasys Matrix N-Series flow-based switches unify and secure three large campus locations in Chestnut Hill, Brighton and Newton, and five smaller, remote sites.

Mac-based authentication for all users and guests is delivered at the edge of the network, all without the need to manually reconfigure each desktop or laptop computer or install any additional agent technologies.

Celeno Communications, a provider of semiconductors for multimedia WiFi home networking applications, today released its WiFi System on a Chip (CL1300), enabling service providers to deliver the perfect user experience, reports Market Watch.

Powered by the Celeno patent-pending OptimizAIR technology, the CL1300 WiFi chip can stream up to four concurrent and different HD streams with whole-home coverage, while maintaining wire-like quality of experience.

Celeno's CL1300 technology will debut at IBC, Amsterdam, from 12 to 16 September. Cisco will also demonstrate at IBC applications enabled by Celeno's WiFi technology.