Nortel Buzzboard

Longtime blogger Mark Evans joins Nortel to take over BuzzboardLongtime blogger Mark Evans is joining Nortel’s team to take over ownership of Nortel Buzzboard.  An experienced technology journalist and blogger, Mark is most prominently known for his relentless coverage of Nortel in his All About Nortel blog.

Since its launch earlier this year, Buzzboard - Nortel’s official news blog - has seen tremendous growth in readership.  As part of Nortel’s overall strategy to better leverage the panoply of new media platforms like blogs, Mark will add a veteran and impartial view to Nortel’s reporting.

After detailed reviews by Nortel’s corporate communications team, legal council, and a specially appointed messaging advisor, …

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If you’ve been to Nortel’s main press release page today, you’ve probably noticed that Nortel issued quite a bit of news this morning around CTIA Wireless 2008.  Here’s a snapshot of all the news in case you don’t want to read through all six press releases:

Nortel and LG Electronics have accomplished two “world firsts.”  Both of the below demonstrations are carried out over ‘live networks’ which means that they have the same characteristics as the real world LTE networks that will be deployed by operators.   More detail on the two below demos can be found here.

First, Nortel and LG Electronics are showing the world’s first demonstration of LTE over the advanced wireless services (AWS) spectrum - special bands (1.7 GHz and 2.1 GHz) in the airwaves that can be used to run 4G wireless networks.  The demo shows standards-based interoperability between Nortel’s LTE Solution and the handset platform developed by LG Electronics.
Second, the two have achieved the world’s first demonstration of mobile LTE while traveling in a vehicle at 110 kilometers per hour with data rates of up to 50 Mbps - fast enough to support mobile multimedia applications.  This is a milestone in the path towards true mobile broadband, taking the applications in stationary environments to vehicular speeds.

Another world’s first at the event, Nortel is showing the world’s first demonstration of a solution that delivers advanced multimedia services like multi-priority calling and picture caller ID on mobile phones regardless of network - 2G, 3G, 4G, WiFi, WiMAX and LTE.  IMS Centralized Service (ICS) User Equipment enables service providers to deliver 4G services directly to 2G/3G mobile devices, making it possible for 2G/3G mobile phone users to receive some of the multimedia services that would otherwise only be available on newer 4G access devices. As well, ICS will also allow 4G handsets to continue using advanced multimedia services even when roaming on 2G and 3G networks. These are critical features in enabling providers to more seamlessly migrate users to new 4G networks.

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At CTIA Wireless 2008 this week in Las Vegas, Nortel announced that it is showing the first ever live demonstration of telepresence over WiMAX.  The demo, which you can see on Nortel’s booth (#1939) at the show, uses a pair of Polycom HDX 9000 series room systems as the end points.

Polycom HDX 9004Instead of using a whopping 20Mb of bandwidth, the single HD camera end-points only need 2-4Mb, which are connected wirelessly via a Nortel WiMAX solution.

This demo shows the potential of how WiMAX or other 4G wireless solutions like LTE can extend the benefits of future bandwidth-hungry applications …

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