Training North America Training, All Regions Tech. Documentation North America Tech. It is part of the OPTera Connect portfolio of optical switches and designed to integrate with other members of the OPTera Connect family, with the OPTera Long Haul products, and as a stand-alone optical switch for the service provider and carrier. Back To Top 2.
Any service provider looking for greater agility and flexibility is a potential customer.
The most viable deployment will be in larger networks where greater economic advantages are available when improving agility and flexibility. Back To Top 3. Nortel Networks is currently working with relevant standards bodies and equipment vendors to complete development of the ASTN specification. The combination of ASTN and OPTera Connect is the key to tomorrow's highly scalable, agile switched optical networks that support a wide range of services when and where required. The OPTera Connect optical switches are high capacity, high performance smart optical switches that comprise the cross connect management platform of the OPTera Packet Solution.