And, it serves as a vital testbed for new Nortel Networks products, providing valuable feedback to the business. More than 100,000 devices are connected to Nortel Networks' intranet at more than 250 sites around the world, and hundreds of trillions of bits of information flow between these sites every month. We handle close to 13 trillion bytes of data every month. Used for all computing and communications services, Nortel Networks' intranet is now the standard vehicle for delivering new Web-based applications across the corporation.
Employees use it to collaborate with customers, suppliers, development partners, and each other.
They use it to access, in real-time from their desktops, data from distributed corporate and external databases. And they use it to cut the time, cost, and paperwork involved in a variety of management and business processes. Most new applications are now Web-based, with over a million Web pages on more than a thousand Web servers worldwide. The network supports rapid communiation, handling more than one million e-mail messages each business day. All of this critical information is protected by a world-class security infrastructure.