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Nortel Networks
Nortel Fiber-Optic Switch Design Issues
•“Think Big. Think Bold.”
•Optera Connect HDX optical cross connect
–Successor to Nortel’s extremely successful OC192 product line
–Scalable to tens of terabits
•Needed a new software platform
–Software architecture needs to survive for ten years
–Large software team with a mixture of Object-Oriented and C