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Nortel’s new unofficial movie producer Miranda MacDonald compiled a video straight from the show floor at CTIA Wireless 2008 on Thursday. After a short intro of still shots from the show, Miranda asks various Nortel employees on the booth “What is 4G?”
As it is with all good films, the ending makes the movie.
My teammate Miranda MacDonald was able to sit in on some of the keynote sessions at CTIA Wireless 2008 on Wednesday, including an executive panel session that Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski participated in. The “infrastructure roundtable” was moderated by Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless President & CEO and also the Chairman of CTIA. In addition to Mike Z, Alcatel Lucent CEO Patricia Russo and Ericsson President & CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg were also on the panel.
The main focus of the panel discussion (as well as the other keynotes) was around mobility and 4G. The common theme was that customers want fast, wireless broadband that is simple, easy and cheap.
One question that Mike Z was asked was “Will LTE be the 4G standard?” See the short video below for Mike’s answer. Also there’s more good stuff below past the video….
Unfortunately I am not in Las Vegas for CTIA Wireless 2008 this week, but my teammate Miranda MacDonald was kind enough to give me an update and some pictures straight from the Nortel booth (#1939) on the show floor.
Click on the link below to see pictures and descriptions of what Nortel has going on at the show.
After yesterday’s raft of news, Nortel followed it up today with more news on day two of CTIA Wireless 2008. You can see all this news on Nortel’s main press release page, but again here’s a snapshot in case you don’t want to read through all five of today’s press releases:
Nortel announced two new additions to its Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) portfolio for businesses - Mobile Extension Hosted and Mobile Extension Hybrid. These solutions transform mobile phones into office extensions giving mobile workers access to the same corporate network voice calling features as their desk phones, like internal extension dialing, conferencing and call …
If you’ve been to Nortel’s main press release page today, you’ve probably noticed that Nortel issued quite a bit of news this morning around CTIA Wireless 2008. Here’s a snapshot of all the news in case you don’t want to read through all six press releases:
Nortel and LG Electronics have accomplished two “world firsts.” Both of the below demonstrations are carried out over ‘live networks’ which means that they have the same characteristics as the real world LTE networks that will be deployed by operators. More detail on the two below demos can be found here.
First, Nortel and LG Electronics are showing the world’s first demonstration of LTE over the advanced wireless services (AWS) spectrum - special bands (1.7 GHz and 2.1 GHz) in the airwaves that can be used to run 4G wireless networks. The demo shows standards-based interoperability between Nortel’s LTE Solution and the handset platform developed by LG Electronics.
Second, the two have achieved the world’s first demonstration of mobile LTE while traveling in a vehicle at 110 kilometers per hour with data rates of up to 50 Mbps - fast enough to support mobile multimedia applications. This is a milestone in the path towards true mobile broadband, taking the applications in stationary environments to vehicular speeds.
Another world’s first at the event, Nortel is showing the world’s first demonstration of a solution that delivers advanced multimedia services like multi-priority calling and picture caller ID on mobile phones regardless of network - 2G, 3G, 4G, WiFi, WiMAX and LTE. IMS Centralized Service (ICS) User Equipment enables service providers to deliver 4G services directly to 2G/3G mobile devices, making it possible for 2G/3G mobile phone users to receive some of the multimedia services that would otherwise only be available on newer 4G access devices. As well, ICS will also allow 4G handsets to continue using advanced multimedia services even when roaming on 2G and 3G networks. These are critical features in enabling providers to more seamlessly migrate users to new 4G networks.
At CTIA Wireless 2008 this week in Las Vegas, Nortel announced that it is showing the first ever live demonstration of telepresence over WiMAX. The demo, which you can see on Nortel’s booth (#1939) at the show, uses a pair of Polycom HDX 9000 series room systems as the end points.
Polycom HDX 9004Instead of using a whopping 20Mb of bandwidth, the single HD camera end-points only need 2-4Mb, which are connected wirelessly via a Nortel WiMAX solution.
This demo shows the potential of how WiMAX or other 4G wireless solutions like LTE can extend the benefits of future bandwidth-hungry applications …
Scott Wickware, VP of Marketing and Strategy for Nortel’s Carrier Networks businessThis week is CTIA Wireless 2008, one of the industry’s biggest wireless events of the year. Nortel will be participating of course - with a booth, a good amount of news, and various session speakers.
One of those Nortel speakers will be Scott Wickware, VP of Marketing and Strategy for Nortel’s Carrier Networks business. A 16-year veteran of Nortel, Scott is responsible for charting the overall business and go-to-market strategy for Nortel’s largest business, with responsibilities for all aspects of commercial, product and strategic marketing. He also sits on the Board of Directors of both CTIA and the Wireless Foundation.
In advance of CTIA, I asked Scott a few questions on Nortel’s wireless strategy, the evolution of our portfolio, and his thoughts on the direction the wireless industry is going:
The industry increasingly sees CDMA as a declining market. Considering Nortel’s leadership in this space, where do you see CDMA demand headed, and how long can Nortel realistically rely on CDMA as a money-making market?
Today’s telecom infrastructure market is going through a bit of a rough patch at the moment brought on by the global economic conditions, particularly in the US. Having said that, we continue to see strength in many segments of the market with operators investing in expansions and upgrades of today’s current technologies. Nortel has done reasonably well in this environment by growing many of our businesses in markets that are essentially flattish.
As an example, Nortel has shown great strength in CDMA over the past year by acquiring an incremental 2% in market share. We continue to focus in 2008 around improving the quality of our products and customer relationships and selectively growing our market share in CDMA and other technologies. At the same time, we’re beginning to see carriers committing to 4G and we expect commercial deployments starting in 2010. It is essential that Nortel is early to market with a strong portfolio of solutions to play a significant role in next generation mobility to ensure to ensure that we successfully transition our customer base and our own revue from today’s existing technologies.
