Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Nortel offers Optical Cross Connect HDX and HDXc are global, scalable multi-service, high-density intelligent optical switches which provide fully non-blocking STS-1/VC4 cross-connect capability and deliver grooming, aggregation, and restoration of SONET/SDH [155 Mbps to 10 Gbps, 40 Gbps ready], transparent wavelengths and Ethernet services. The platforms also offer extensive subtending ring capability for efficient nodal consolidation applications. The optical switch offers Modular scalability supporting fully non-blocking per shelf switch matrix capacities from: 320 Gbps to 640 Gbps [HDXc] & 640 Gbps to 1.28 Tbps [HDX], HDX/HDXc combined solution delivering up to 5 Tbps capacity and beyond, Mixed SONET/SDH, Ethernet and Transparent wavelength service support, Integrated DWDM Optics [pluggable] with full C band tunable [50 GHz spacing] lasers with AM1 and AM2 support. The key features of the Optical Cross Connect HDX/HDXc are:
