Nortel Networks

At the beginning there was Bluetail, a Swedish company founded in 1998 by Erlang developers. This company was building Erlang based network appliance. They made several robustifying and clustering applications (Mail robustifier, Web prioritizer, Directory robustifier, SSL Accelerator).

Their activity was described as following: "Bluetail develops and sells software products to Internet organizations therby supplying Reliability, Scalability and Manageability to Internet services."

In 2000, Bluetail was sold to Alteon WebSystems. A short time later Alteon was sold to Nortel Networks.

Erlang development keeps on going at Nortel today. Nortel Networks has became one of the biggest company using Erlang, along with Ericsson.

Nortel Networks is providing Erlang based products.

Here are some examples:

• Alteon SSL Accelerator
• Alteon 8661 SSL Accelerator Module
• Alteon Application Switch 2424-SSL
• Alteon SSL VPN
• Alteon Switched Firewall System

More informations are available in the following documents:

• Press Release on Nortels Enterprise Applications
• Nortel Preps 'Security Switch'
• Analysis: Nortel jumps into the wireless LAN market

Technical details were presented during the seventh Erlang User Conference in september 2001: The Best SSL Appliance in the World:

• Version en ligne
• Postcript (ps.gz)