The new Nortel Ethernet Access portfolio is based on Wave Division Multiplexing Passive Optical Networking (WDM-PON) technology that brings new levels of simplicity, flexibility, security, and performance to the delivery of broadband business and residential services.

The Nortel portfolio, one of the industry's first to use WDM-PON architecture, extends the advantages of carrier-grade Ethernet to the "First Mile" and overcomes traffic jams caused by bandwidth-hungry applications such as HD video on demand.  WDM-PON makes it possible to divide a single optical fiber into multiple wavelengths, each capable of carrying the same bandwidth that previously required an entire fiber.

The Nortel Ethernet Access portfolio extends ultra-fast Ethernet services to customers by providing dedicated and secure wavelengths of symmetrical bandwidth to each user.  For service providers, the Nortel solution offers a competitive edge by accelerating the rollout of business and/or residential services with a simple engineering and deployment model.