Nortel has launched a new network virtualisation solution.

"Creating a virtual network increases the speed and simplicity of commerce. It reduces the time to deploy new services and applications, add new networking elements and allows what are essentially different networks to be operated as a single entity," said Joel Hackney, president, Enterprise Solutions, Nortel. "It also speeds the time and ability for enterprises to take advantage of important new technologies like unified communications which can mitigate the complexity of business communications by linking them directly to business process. Our customers also now have the ability to introduce their own revenue-generating services quickly."

Nortel's end-to-end network virtualisation solution features the Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS) 8600 5.0 coupled with the Virtual Services Switch 5000, a new platform that consolidates network elements and provides flexible and dynamic network services on-the-fly.