By Bo Gowan
29 October 2008
2:46 pm EDT
Today on GigaOM, Stacey Higginbotham highlights a new report out on the global WiMAX market. The new study by TeleGeography Research says that the number of commercial WiMAX networks worldwide has jumped 82% in the last year — from 69 to 126. Stacey’s post also has a really neat global map that shows the regional breakdown of those 126 deployments. Take a look.
Adding to those 126 deployments is Fairpoint Communications, a service provider that offers a variety of comms services (local and long distance voice, data, Internet, television and broadband) across 18 states. Today, Nortel announced that Fairpoint was working with Nortel to build a WiMAX network to serve thousands of mainly rural customers across Vermont, …
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By Bo Gowan
29 October 2008
9:29 am EDT
This morning Nortel issued this media alert announcing that we will issue our 3Q08 financial results on Monday, November 10th.
The earnings press release will be issued at approximately 6:00am ET. Then at 8:30am ET, Mike Zafirovski (President and CEO) and Pavi Binning (Executive Vice President and CFO) will host a live audio webcast and conference call to present the third quarter 2008 results.
The best way to listen in on the conference call is to visit the event page, which post a link to a live streaming webcast of the call around 15 minutes before the start of the call. That same page will have the presentation slides, and will have a link to a replay of the event …
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By Bo Gowan
28 October 2008
11:18 am EDT
The Bonnington Towers under construction (Jan 2008). Photo credit: WikipediaWhile the world economy continues to try to find its footing, one region that is performing better than most is the Middle East, where cities like Dubai in the United Arab Emirates continue to grow.
Last week, Nortel announced multiple new customers in the Middle East. Today, Nortel issued a string of announcements highlighting new hospitality industry customers (i.e. hotels), and two of the more interesting ones are new hotels in Dubai. The Bavaria Executive Suites Dubai and the Bonnington Jumeirah Lakes Towers -Dubai are both luxury properties that are using Nortel solutions to improve both guest …
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By Bo Gowan
22 October 2008
3:37 pm EDT
I spend part of my morning in a dentist chair today. It had been three or four years since my last dentist visit (shame on me), so some of the changes in how things were done gave me a good example of how technology can improve patient care.
X-rays of my teeth were taken by their new, state of the art digital x-ray machine — and the x-rays immediately appeared on a PC monitor beside my chair. The dentist reviewed the x-rays, retook one that wasn’t perfect, then was able to determine immediately which of my pearly whites needed the most attention.
The dentist booked my next appointment right from that PC using the office’s shared …
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By Bo Gowan
17 October 2008
10:19 am EDT
A new report today from analyst firm ABI Research says that Nortel has the industry’s greenest switches.
ABI Research issued this press release today, highlighting their new “Green Network Equipment” vendor matrix ranking. You can see a summary of the report here.
The ABI report ranks vendor ‘greenness’ on two categories — each vendor’s internal green initiatives (how green they are) as well as the greenness of their switches (how green they make their customers).
Overall, the report ranked Cisco, Nortel and HP number one, two and three respectively. However, the report gives Nortel top honors for the greenness of its switches, which takes into account power efficiency, value-add green features, certifications, and the greenness of power supplies and switching tools.
Stan …
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By Bo Gowan
16 October 2008
3:02 pm EDT
Speak Spanish? If you do, you’ll be happy to know that Nortel has recently launched a Spanish language channel on YouTube.
With a little guidance from yours truly, my teammates in our CALA region (Caribbean and Latin America) have created the Nortel Latin America channel on YouTube.
In addition to posting a few Spanish language Nortel commercials, the channel already has a few presentations posted from local Nortel CALA executives.
This is what I hope is just one of many steps in making Nortel’s new media presence much more global than it is today.
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By Bo Gowan
10 October 2008
9:29 am EDT
Nortel CS 2000 IP multimedia softswitchComstar United TeleSystems, the largest fixed-line telecommunications company in Moscow, has fully deployed a VoIP transit backbone network that spans Russia. Comstar’s VoIP network is built on the Nortel Communication Server (CS) 2000 IP multimedia softswitch.
The Russia-wide CS 2000 transit network creates a nation-wide network to address national and international PSTN transit traffic exclusively using Voice over IP technology. Russia is, of course, the largest country in the world — spanning more than an eighth of the Earth’s land area.
You can read more in this press release issued yesterday.
Also yesterday, Nortel announced that Turk Telecom was providing Centrex IP and …
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By Bo Gowan
9 October 2008
2:31 pm EDT
Nortel’s internal IT network has long been a proving ground for technologies that Nortel sells to enterprises and service providers around the world. This philosophy of “Nortel on Nortel” has created a best-in-class IT network that increases employee productivity and saves the company millions. Here are just a few data points:
Unified Communications: Nortel has implemented UC and realized over $12 million in annual savings with a 10-month ROI.
Green: By having one-third fewer data center rooms and 1,800 fewer servers, Nortel avoided an estimated 15M kWh of energy valued at approximately $530K annually.
VoIP: Nortel is consolidating its voice infrastructure from a highly distributed to a centralized architecture to improve operational efficiency and …
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By Bo Gowan
8 October 2008
2:02 pm EDT
Nortel has introduced several new products targeted directly at enabling unified communications capabilities for the US$11 billion SMB market. The BCM450 is a new member of the Nortel BCM portfolio, targeting the high end of the SMB market. The new BSG8 and BSG12 combine routing and switching, security and wifi into a single device that is also fine tuned to support unified communications applications.
The BCM450 - an evolution path to UC for the medium-sized business
The BCM450 is the latest member of Nortel’s Business Communications Manager (BCM) portfolio, joining the BCM50, BCM200 and BCM400. Like the rest of the award-winning BCM portfolio, the BCM450 is a converged voice …
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By Bo Gowan
8 October 2008
8:06 am EDT
A few weeks ago, Nortel CTO John Roese joined other industry leaders at the GigaOM Mobilize conference in San Francisco. I’ve already posted about the Q&A John had with Om Malik on-stage at the show. But after that Q&A, John talked to GigaOM’s Carolyn Pritchard for a video interview.
Sometimes unscripted video interviews can be choppy and relatively uninformative — but this is a really interesting interview with some great questions from Carolyn and good insight from John. In the interview, John talks about how 4G will enable an “equalization” between desktop and mobile experiences, and how that will help enterprises who have have fallen behind in providing their employees with effective mobile access to business applications. See the …
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