Nortel Buzzboard

 A random collection of Nortel Green facts and resources for your reading pleasure:

Today at the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference, Mike Z participated in a panel entitled: A Carbon Constrained America: Costs, Risks and Opportunities.  Some of his comments were highlighted in this press release Nortel issued this afternoon.
Also at the event, Nortel telepresence will also be used to facilitate four panel discussions in remotes locations - New Delhi India; Frankfurt, Germany; Raleigh North Carolina; and Paris, France. 
Richard Bloom in Nortel put a lot of research into this article that does a great job summarizing many of Nortel’s internal and external green efforts.   This is well worth the 10 minutes required to give it a look.  Of …

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I bet you thought I’d forgotten.  I started off today with just another post that didn’t have a single mention of it.  Heck, we got all the way to the eve of the big day without even a hint of it.

Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski talks green on CNBC “It” - of course - is Earth Day.  If there ever was an example of how a grass roots social campaign can change corporate thinking, Earth Day is it. 

These days, everyone is going green.  It’s the morally (and politically) correct thing to do.  But what more and more people and companies are realizing is that it’s the business savvy thing to do as …

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Today, two different articles take a look at areas where Nortel is looking to see growth over the next few years.  Both provide an interesting read:

The first article is a Q&A in the Business Standard in India with recently-appointed Nortel India Managing Director Hitesh Lokhandwala and VP of marketing in Asia Rick Seeto.  They discuss Nortel’s growth goals for Asia, the move of R&D and resources to the region, and some of our recent local customer wins. 

The second article is in this morning’s edition of USA Today, a feature article that talks about the growing bandwidth shortage in the U.S. due to the rise of high-bandwidth apps like HD video.  This article takes a little different angle than others I’ve …

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