By Bo Gowan
30 May 2008
5:22 pm EDT
This week has been a bit slow for Nortel news — as you have likely noticed with my posts on the exaflood and twitter. Luckily for me and you, next week will be much different.
Next week, hundreds of Nortel customers from around the world will descend on the wonderful city of Grapevine, Texas, for Global Connect 2008. The event is happening at the Gaylord Texan Hotel, which is about 5 minutes from the Nortel facility I work at (otherwise called my house).
Global Connect is the annual conference for Nortel enterprise customers hosted by INNUA (the International Nortel Networks Users Association). The event provides the obvious educational …
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By Bo Gowan
30 May 2008
10:37 am EDT
Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski was in Mexico earlier this week as part of the inauguration of Nortel’s Center of Excellence (CoE) in Mexico City. The event celebrated the expansion of the facility (literally building on a new wing), which includes a new engineering laboratory, a new customer demonstration center, and the space required to provide expanded technical support and new product introduction for the region.
“The Mexico CoE is proving that we live in a globally integrated world. From Mexico, the CoE delivers to Nortel a desirable geographic location, a talented and motivated workforce, a government that we can partner and work together with, as well as a strong infrastructure,” said Mike …
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