Nortel is doing its part in fostering distance and online learning in China. The communications provider had helped the University of Petroleum connect its campus in Beijing to those in Dongying and Qingdao in the Shandong province last year, thus facilitating easy online access to the University’s advanced learning resources for its 40,000 students.

Now, Nortel is upgrading the converged campus network with a Nortel (NT) solution. The upgraded communications platform will allow real-time communication between the students, staff, and administration of all three campuses, through the use of high-bandwidth Internet services. Distance learning, web-based multimedia collaboration, video conferencing, and VoIP are just a few of the benefits that the Nortel infrastructure has made available.