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Click here to call me at home.

No, that doesn’t work yet, but this week Nortel unveiled a new solution called the IP Powered Home that makes it possible.  Targeted at service providers, IP Powered Home is essentially a bundle of consumer-based applications that merge phone, Internet, and TV services in the home.

The solution uses residential VoIP as a base, then adds on optional services that customers can subscribe to from their service provider (much like today’s residential voice service model).

The core solution provides VoIP lines for each member of the family, a single number for both home and mobile phones, and video calling features.  Customers can set up call routing preferences based on …

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Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas

Last week while Nortel CTO John Roese and IDC senior vice president Vito Mabrucco were having a media event in Toronto to discuss the details of the IDC Hyperconnectivity study, Nortel was also hosting a group of reporters to it’s campus in Richardson, TX. This group of reporters was from CALA (Caribbean and Latin America), and the Nortel team had a full two-day agenda scheduled for them.

In addition to a telepresence session with John and Vito, the reporters were also treated to a visit to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas to see the UC deployment …

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