According to Orion Securities analyst Duncann Stewart, British Telecom (BT) is reloading on its core network technology plans. Stewart points to comments made at a recent conference by Tim Hubbard, who heads up strategy for BT’s $19-billion next-generation network initiative. Hubbard the carrier is changing its core network technology plans and will to use provider backbone transport (PBT) to carry traffic between access and metro nodes. Stewart said this could be good news for Nortel because the Canadian telecom equipment supplier has been working on PBT technology and, more important, talking to BT about it. Nortel was a long-time BT supplier but it was shut out of BT’s 21st Century Network plans due to a lack of confidence in Nortel’s technology. Maybe, PBT is a way for Nortel to get its foot back in the door.
Can Nortel Get Some BT 21CN Love?
According to Orion Securities analyst Duncann Stewart, British Telecom (BT) is reloading on its core network technology plans. Stewart points to comments made at a recent conference by Tim Hubbard, who heads up strategy for BT’s $19-billion next-generation network initiative. Hubbard the carrier is changing its core network technology plans and will to use provider backbone transport (PBT) to carry traffic between access and metro nodes. Stewart said this could be good news for Nortel because the Canadian telecom equipment supplier has been working on PBT technology and, more important, talking to BT about it. Nortel was a long-time BT supplier but it was shut out of BT’s 21st Century Network plans due to a lack of confidence in Nortel’s technology. Maybe, PBT is a way for Nortel to get its foot back in the door.