Tuesday, February 10, 2004

American Fiber Systems Selects Nortel's Optical Ethernet

American Fiber Systems, a provider of metro optical networks with some 76,000 miles of deployed fiber, selected Nortel Networks' Optical Ethernet gear for several cities in the U.S. AFS will offer Ethernet point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and Internet access (EIA) services with bandwidth rates from 10 Mbps to Gigabit Ethernet. AFS customers will be able to choose specific, custom bandwidth rates. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.nortelnetworks.comhttp://www.americanfibersystems.com