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Nortel announced last week that Canadian service provider Telus is installing Nortel's voice-over-IP equipment to migrate its circuit-based long-distance network to a packet-based infrastructure.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Telus is upgrading its four Nortel DMS circuit switches with Nortel's Succession Communication Server 2000 softswitches. The service provider also is installing Nortel's Passport Packet Voice Gateways in 11 locations across Canada. VoIP traffic will be transported across Telus' existing optical network, which is based on Nortel's OPTera Long Haul 1600 optical line system. Telus also will deploy Nortel's Succession Centrex IP service system, and is trialing Nortel's Succession Interactive Multimedia Server for delivery of Session Initiation Protocol-based personalization, collaboration and other multimedia services.

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Nortel announced last week that Canadian service provider Telus is installing Nortel's voice-over-IP equipment to migrate its circuit-based long-distance network to a packet-based infrastructure.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Telus is upgrading its four Nortel DMS circuit switches with Nortel's Succession Communication Server 2000 softswitches. The service provider also is installing Nortel's Passport Packet Voice Gateways in 11 locations across Canada. VoIP traffic will be transported across Telus' existing optical network, which is based on Nortel's OPTera Long Haul 1600 optical line system. Telus also will deploy Nortel's Succession Centrex IP service system, and is trialing Nortel's Succession Interactive Multimedia Server for delivery of Session Initiation Protocol-based personalization, collaboration and other multimedia services.

The Metro Ethernet Forum last week announced the establishment of a relationship with the International Telecommunications Union to facilitate the implementation of metropolitan Ethernet standards. The forum said it will deliver its Metro Ethernet Services specifications by mid-2003. Also, the forum's technical committee moved 16 technical documents pertaining to Ethernet services, protocol and transport, management and architecture to ballot or straw ballot phase; and advanced to draft status the Ethernet Interworking Network-to-Network Interface technical specification. This specification will let service providers interconnect and extend service coverage.

Somera Communications, a provider of telecom equipment deployment services, recently announced that it is now supporting Riverstone Networks' RS metropolitan routers. Somera will offer network operators programs that let them exchange equipment for Riverstone technology.

Read more about convergence in Network World's Convergence section.