Telekomunikacja Polska to Offer Storage, Business Continuity Services

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

    WARSAW, Poland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2005--Telekomunikacja Polska (TP) has chosen optical solutions from Nortel (NYSE:NT)(TSX:NT) to help meet growing demand from large enterprises in Poland for advanced, high-speed data services like real-time storage and business continuity and disaster recovery. These new services from TP will allow customers to secure and protect critical business information and simplify their networks through consolidation of servers and storage.
    "The Polish market has been experiencing a growing demand for high-volume data transmission, especially for large financial and government institutions," said Henryk Morski, managing director, Telekomunikacja Polska. "Real-time data transmission opens up completely new business opportunities for these organizations and sets new standards for reliable and secure data networking and storage. The density and service flexibility of the Nortel metro DWDM platform allows us to provide more competitively priced services."
    The high-speed data services to be offered by TP will allow critical business information to be mirrored at a remote site and be immediately available in the event of a business interruption like a power failure or network outage. The services will meet the stringent service level agreements demanded by the business continuity and disastery recovery plans of the financial and government sectors.
    "Nortel is supporting TP's commitment to offer its customers secure and reliable high-speed data services," said Jacek Figula, TP account director for Nortel. "Using Nortel's metro DWDM solutions, TP will have the opportunity to help their business customers address storage protection requirements, simplify their networks and reduce operational costs."
    TP is using Nortel optical solutions to offer its customers secure, scalable and reliable services. This includes the Nortel Optical Metro 5200 metro DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) platform, which supports an array of high-capacity data services including Fiber Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, ESCON and FICON. OM5200 is an industry-leading metro DWDM platform and offers resilient fiber optic transport to support bandwidth and processing-intensive applications. This DWDM-based platform is designed to provide leading-edge flexibility and scalability with long-term investment protection.

    About Telekomunikacja Polska

    Telekomunikacja Polska is Poland's leading telephone service provider supporting over 11 million customers. The company is also a leader in data transmission, satellite communications and Internet access services. The POLPAK Telecommunications and Information Center is an independent business unit of Telekomunikacja Polska (TP). Telekomunikacja Polska is a part of the France Telecom global telecommunications group. More information on TP: www.tp.pl.

    About Nortel

    Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world's most critical information. Serving both service provider and enterprise customers, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the world's greatest challenges. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.

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KEYWORD: TEXAS POLAND INTERNATIONAL EUROPE INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING HARDWARE SOFTWARE COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS MARKETING AGREEMENTS SOURCE: Nortel

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