Nortel Application Switches, Accelerators and WAN optimization products deliver application availability, performance and security by balancing and accelerating traffic and by giving IT Managers control over their network.

Nortel Application Switches are designed from the ground up for load balancing and application acceleration, providing enterprises with unprecedented control over applications and the networks on which they run. Nortel offers five models that meet customer network size and needs in terms of performance, port density & type, and security acceleration. Nortel Application Switches also provide comprehensive resiliency support for voice, data and video in the event of link, node and site failures, by using true active/active failover.

Nortel WAN Optimization products improve virtually any application response time by as much as 50 times over WAN - resulting in increased user satisfaction and productivity.  WAN optimization is achieved through reduction in bandwidth requirements and server utilization, patented advanced compression, transport optimization, delta caching, TCP protocol optimization and SSL acceleration; delivering significant cost savings. Nortel's WAN Optimization portfolio is comprised of Application Accelerators 510 and 610, the Mobile Client Accelerator, and the Optical Metro 5130.

Nortel offers a comprehensive WAN optimization solution for  mobile and remote users ,  web acceleration and SSL offload , and  secure and optimized SAN/LAN/NAS extension between data centers.

• Mobile Client Accelerator
  Mobile Client Accelerator (MCA) is a Client-based WAN optimization product used to accelerate the delivery of most data applications over the Internet and across WANs.
• Optical Metro 5130
  The Optical Metro 5130 is compact edge platform that secures all IN-Flight data over the WAN, optimizes the performance of enterprise applications over that WAN and simplifies the convergence and extension of those applications over a common WAN (IP, Ethernet or CWDM) infrastructure.