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One recent news item that I didn’t get to talk about in the last few weeks with all the other news about 40 gig and VoiceCon (as well as a week of vacation) was the joint news that Nortel announced a few weeks ago with Microsoft.  This area is particularly close to my heart as I have personally supported this alliance for the last year and half.

In our joint release with Microsoft, we announced that four new OCS-based solutions from our Innovative Communications Alliance were now generally available.  In total, Nortel and Microsoft have now brought 10 solutions to market related to the alliance.  The alliance now has over 600 wins, and we highlighted 5 new OCS-based joint customers in the release.

Earlier today I attended an internal Q&A session in Richardson for Nortel employees hosted by Ruchi Prasad.  Ruchi is Nortel’s VP and GM of the Innovative Communications Alliance.  She answered various questions about the alliance’s progress, our solutions, the competition, etc.

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Last night CBC in Canada had a great video piece on the coming Internet traffic jam.  About halfway in Nortel’s Philippe Morin is interviewed with his insight.  Again this topic ties back into Nortel’s recent 40 gig news.  Also included is a great shot of Nortel’s telepresence solution if you haven’t seen it before.

The best line in the entire clip has to be the closing, when a teenager is asked what she would do if the Internet were to slow down considerably:
“I would just get frustrated and not want to spend my time on the computer, and maybe do something useful.”
The complete piece is below (about 3 minutes long).

UPDATE: Here’s a link to another …

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