By Sami Asiri
4 July 2008
1:53 pm EDT
The Nortel Asia Summit came to a close yesterday. For our final bit of coverage on the event, Rick Seeto, Nortel’s VP of marketing in Asia, has provided us with some parting thoughts on the Summit — why we hosted it and how we think it turned out. Here is his guest post:
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Rick Seeto, VP of Marketing, Asia As we come to the close of our very first all Asia Analyst and Media Summit many of the team are looking forward to the weekend, and deservedly so.
Our engagement opportunity with our top analysts across Asia has been exceptional …
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By Bo Gowan
3 July 2008
2:04 pm EDT
Anytime you invite dozens of the region’s most important media and analysts to come and talk to your senior execs, it’s probably a good idea to have a lot of news to talk about.
That’s exactly what Nortel is doing this week with a panoply of press releases related to the APAC region — all in support of this week’s Nortel Asia Summit in Sydney, Australia.
I’ve already talked about two of the releases, the 40gig win with Southern Cross Cables and the appointment of new leaders for the APAC region, but most of the week’s news has been focused on new unified communications deployments. While some of last year’s media hype about UC has quieted a …
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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 Sami Asiri
30 June 2008
5:40 pm EDT
From July 1-3, Nortel will be hosting over 60 analysts and media from all over Asia Pacific in Sydney, Australia for our first ever Asia Summit.
As you’d expect from a large-scale shindig like this, the three day event will feature panel, breakout and 1-on-1 sessions led by Nortel executives and subject matter experts. We’ll show off carrier, enterprise and services demos, and have IDC on hand to talk about Hyperconnectivity.
Bo and I don’t get to go to Australia, but expect a daily digest from us on the news coming out of Sydney. This includes key announcements, from-the-floor reports by our colleagues and a guest post recap at the end of the week.
Stay tuned…
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