By Bo Gowan
12 June 2008
5:01 pm EDT
One of yesterday’s big announcements was the news that Verizon had chosen Nortel as a supplier for its next-generation metro network backbone. While the 4G/WiMAX/LTE news got more media coverage, some suggest it’s really this big win with Verizon that is fueling some of the “excitement” about Nortel.
The actual press release didn’t get into a lot of detail on the win, so some of the media coverage and spokesperson comments fill out some of the story a little more. Light Reading covered the story and talked to Philippe Morin, Nortel’s president of Metro Ethernet Networks. In the article, Philippe highlights how Verizon choosing PBB over MPLS is a big endorsement since “the biggest …
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By Bo Gowan
12 June 2008
11:49 am EDT
Scott Wickware, new GM for Nortel’s WiMAX businessYesterday was a big news day for Nortel, so let’s start sorting through the details of some of it and what the news means for Nortel’s direction.
The item that got the most attention yesterday was Nortel’s news in the 4G wireless space. Nortel announced a change in R&D direction here, shifting it’s main R&D efforts to 4G LTE to address that market’s accelerating time schedule. At the same time Nortel announced a strategic WiMAX agreement with Alvarion where they will become Nortel’s supplier for mobile WiMAX base stations as part of an end-to-end WiMAX solution.
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By Bo Gowan
12 June 2008
10:42 am EDT
A quick note here about a new piece of news from this morning that I found interesting. Today Nortel issued this press release about how Montreal’s Santa Cabrini Hospital is deploying a unified communications solution — one that is supposed to be the first to provide wireless voice, data and patient monitoring services hospital-wide over a single common “clinical-grade” network.
The hospital will also allow staff to use the network for their own personal devices to access clinical applications from the patient’s bedside.While the release talks about all the “official” uses for the network - support for wireless electrocardiogram monitors …
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