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Focusing on the future of communications

This week on Buzzboard you’ll see a lot of coverage and analysis on where communications is going in the next few years.  On Tuesday, Nortel CTO John Roese and IDC Canada’s Senior VP of Worldwide Consulting and Managing Director, Vito Mabrucco, will be hosting a press conference in Toronto detailing the results of a global study on Hyperconnectivity.  The study covers a wide range of topics, from which countries have the most hyperconnected users to how many people admit to reading email in church.

And later this week, I’ll be traveling to Ottawa where we will be hosting several industry bloggers as part of our Nortel Futures 2008 event.  We’ll be showing them the latest and greatest that our R&D team is working on as part of Nortel’s R&D incubation program and open innovation lab.  I plan to get some good behind the scenes pictures and maybe even some video from that event.

Comments

  1. Bo - is Tuesday’s jamboree going to be more pontification by JR on where the “industry” is going or will we learn more about where Nortel is placing it’s bets, how big Nortel thinks the segment is, what Nortel thinks the timing of the segment is, and how much share Nortel is aiming at?

    Have fun in Ottawa. be sure to ask “Is this an experiment or a program?” And test your answer with “Which business unit is planning to take this to market? How much are they investing?” If the answer is jibber jabber about ‘incubation’ and there is no business unit funding, then I believe the hurdle to get to market is still very high. The Nortel business unit silos have always been very, very deep.

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