I hope everyone had a good holiday vacation. Among other things, I spent my time off buying a pull-behind RV, and am looking forward to a few family road trips (I bought used so no comments about me being loaded). I might even put the concept of Hyperconnectivity to good use and try posting from the road on my first trip.

Rich Tehrani of TMCnet is on the short list of trade media we keep in the loop on all things enterprise. He often talks to Joel Hackney and other Nortel enterprise spokespeople on the state of our enterprise business.

Last week Virgin Media officially launched a 50Mb home broadband service for their customers, the fastest broadband service available in the UK. You can see the Virgin Media press release here.

What exactly does a demo of 100 Gigabit Ethernet traveling over a 800km long 100gig link look like? Apparently a lot of people are curious to know, since a video that I posted of this demo yesterday evening on the Nortel YouTube channel already has almost 1,000 views. It probably also helps that this morning Nortel issued this press release about the demo that also links to the video.

You've likely noticed that Buzzboard has a bit of a new look. After an initial aborted attempt at moving over from WordPress to a new Jive Clearspace platform a few weeks ago, last night we made the move.

As Nortel comes closer to the official unveiling of web.alive, the guys in the w.a team have started showing the 3D collaboration tool to a few select media and analysts. Almost without fail, anyone that experiences the 3D virtual environment

Nortel today has issued a press release regarding its listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Below is the press release in its entirely:

The tough economy doesn't seem to be hampering Verizon's appetite to deploy cutting edge technology, as their CTO says they plan to deploy both LTE and 100gig by this time next year.

This morning the Wall Street Journal published an article that Nortel "has sought legal counsel to explore bankruptcy-court protection from creditors in the event that its restructuring plan fails, according to people familiar with the situation." This WSJ story has filtered through to various other publications as well.

There's another industry recognition of Nortel's optical technology leadership to talk about with today's news that Nortel has been named Optical Network Vendor of the Year in the Telecom Asia Readers' Choice Awards.

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative is one that Nortel has been heavily involved in supporting. Its lofty goal is "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop (called the XO) with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

I'm back online here at Buzzboard after being down this week for a migration of our nortel.com blogs to a new blogging and social media platform. If you don't notice much different from before, that's because there is no difference...we're still using WordPress for at least a little bit longer. Some trialing and testing revealed that a little more work needed to be done to make sure we had a smooth transition, so we've brought our old platform back online while we

While most of the U.S. (including myself) has been taking some or all of this last week off for Thanksgiving vacation, my teammate Miranda MacDonald has been kind enough to keep this Buzzboard blog going.

We've got some great news to do with our optical solutions portfolio which you've probably been reading a bit about already in posts like this one that talked about our recent 40G win with SK broadband, 40G-ready win with RoEduNet, and the SCinet 100G demo .

Before I get into the details about the WiMAX news, I wanted to take a second to introduce myself.