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Nortel shows off optical technology prowess

Bo Gowan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:57:10 +0000

Nortel has made a couple of announcements over the last few days that have highlighted some pretty impressive optical technology leadership. Late last week, this press release highlighted a 40gig optical win for LG-Nortel with SK Broadband, South Korea’s second-largest broadband provider. Using Nortel’s 40/100G solution, SK Broadband is upgrading their 10gig network to 40gig. With [...]

Can IPTV providers follow the iPhone model?

Bo Gowan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:10:55 +0000

This week in Anaheim, Nortel and others in the industry have been showing off their latest and greatest solutions for IPTV. For service providers looking to offer video and IPTV services to their residential customers, the question that is front and center is simple: can IPTV providers differentiate their TV service from today’s existing cable [...]

Verizon Business signs with Nortel for Managed Telepresence offer

Bo Gowan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:34:48 +0000

Some big news for Nortel on the Telepresence front, as Verizon Business has announced that it will offer its customers a managed Telepresence service with Nortel. My fellow Nortel blogger Mark Buford had a post on the news today on our sister blog on hyperconnectivity.com. In his post, Mark details how the deals combines Verizon Business’s [...]

Your comments make the news

Bo Gowan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:42:44 +0000

This morning while reading through the press clippings for Nortel, I ran across a new story in the Globe & Mail where Simon Avery focuses on the departure of Nortel CTO John Roese. I found two things particularly interesting in the article. In the absence of an interview, Simon instead turned to John’s comments on his [...]

3Q08 financials news coverage round-up

Bo Gowan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:35:36 +0000

Since yesterday’s Nortel news, I’ve spend at ton of time on two things — listening and reading. Like many of my fellow employees, I’ve been sitting in on several employee conference calls yesterday and today to hear directly from our leaders. And like many of you, I’ve been reading all the coverage from the media [...]

Aligning with the times

Bo Gowan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:34:34 +0000

There was a common them I heard that ran throughout Nortel’s financial results press release, as well as Mike Z and Pavi Binning’s comments in this morning’s conference call: Align with the times. With customer spending down across the board, Nortel CEO Mike Z made it clear today that cash is king, and that an immediate [...]

John Roese’s last blog post

Bo Gowan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:09:24 +0000

One item in today’s raft of Nortel news was the announcement that John Roese is leaving Nortel — a result of Nortel’s move to a decentralized organizational model where R&D (among other functions) is being moved into the various Nortel business units. Today, John has a new post entitled “My final blog post” that details his [...]

Nortel issues 3Q08 financial results

Bo Gowan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:56:45 +0000

Nortel this morning issued this press release highlighting its financial results for the third quarter of 2008. It is a long release — eight full pages of information and updates — so here’s an attempt at boiling down some of the key points: Financial Results: In 3Q08, Nortel had revenues of $2.32 billion and gross margin of [...]

Nortel 3Q08 earnings reminder

Bo Gowan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:21:02 +0000

Just a reminder that Nortel will be announcing our financial results for 3Q08 next Monday. 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 [...]

Another small step for Nortel’s social media program

Bo Gowan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:00:54 +0000

If you follow this Nortel blog regularly, you know that throughout this year we’ve been working on building out Nortel’s presence and participation in a variety of new media / social media venues. We launched this blog and several others, we hosted a few industry bloggers at an R&D event in Ottawa, we have an [...]