Cox Taps Nortel for $65m Telephony Deal

Cox Communications has awarded Nortel Networks a $65 million, three-year contract for optical Ethernet, next-generation SONET and telephony equipment to expand its customer base and deliver new services.

The new deal is an addition to the deal Cox in California awarded Nortel Networks in October for optical Ethernet equipment.

As part of the agreement announced today, Cox plans to deploy Nortel Networks Optical Ethernet and next generation SONET equipment including Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 3100, 3400 and 3500 Multiservice Platforms to increase network capacity and enhance its ability to offer telecommunications services. Cox also expects to deploy products from Nortel Networks proven DMS telephony switching portfolio to serve additional residential and commercial telephone subscribers. Cox will be able to leverage investments in DMS in future deployments of voice over IP technologies and architectures. Cox currently has more than 650,000 residential telephony customers to date, served exclusively by Nortel Networks DMS portfolio.

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