By Bo Gowan
2 July 2008
6:29 pm EDT
Nortel today announced that Jackson Wu and François Lançon were taking over as the leaders of the Greater China and Asia Pacific regions respectively. They fill the need created in April 2008 when Michael Pangia - formerly President of a combined Asia region - was appointed to North America as Senior Vice-President, Global Sales Operations and Strategy.
Aside from the new leaders, the obvious change here is the move from having a single APAC (Asia Pacific) leader to having two leaders — one for Greater China and one across the rest of the APAC region.
In the press release, Bill Nelson, Nortel’s Executive Vice-President of Global Sales, talks about how the changing APAC market was key in the move …
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By Bo Gowan
2 July 2008
12:55 pm EDT
Nortel’s much ballyhooed 40gig optical solution has a new customer. This morning we announced that Southern Cross was deploying Nortel’s 40gig technology. Southern Cross is an independent bandwidth wholesaler, and its network provides the major link for Internet traffic from Australia, New Zealand and Fiji to the US, as well as linking Hawaii to the US mainland.
Southern Cross is a longtime Nortel optical customer, and this latest announcement shows an interesting evolution of their optical network through Nortel. Southern Cross originally selected Nortel back in 2001 to provide optical equipment for the U.S. terrestrial part of its network. Then two years ago Southern Cross started deploying …
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