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The BBC recently tested out Nortel’s 40/100gig optical solution. No, not for deployment in their own network, but as part of the latest edition of Click, a weekly tech-focused program on the telly.

BBC Click traveled all the way to Nortel’s technology labs in Dallas for its latest edition on the future of communications. The show delved into a variety of technologies, including 40/100gig, telepresence, IPTV, WiMAX and LTE. Nortel even helped Click stage a mock health emergency to show how WiMAX can improve emergency care. Nortel associate fellow from MIT Andy Lippman and new WiMAX GM Scott Wickware are also interviewed during the show.

You can see the entire show via streaming …

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Yesterday I highlighted the availability of the new online interactive Nortel Energy Efficiency Calculator (iNEEC). The other part of the news in yesterday’s press release was to show that enterprise customers were increasingly considering product energy efficiency when making their network purchase decisions.

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, that may seem like old news since Nortel has been claiming this since Interop. But yesterday’s release provides actual customer and channel partner affirmation that energy efficiency really is top-of-mind.

For example, Sean O’Hara, manager of Systems Engineering at Prairie Cardiovascular said, “Not only were we able to achieve a highly redundant network core, we realized a significant savings of both power and …

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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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A quick note here about a new piece of news from this morning that I found interesting. Today Nortel issued this press release about how Montreal’s Santa Cabrini Hospital is deploying a unified communications solution — one that is supposed to be the first to provide wireless voice, data and patient monitoring services hospital-wide over a single common “clinical-grade” network.

The hospital will also allow staff to use the network for their own personal devices to access clinical applications from the patient’s bedside.While the release talks about all the “official” uses for the network - support for wireless electrocardiogram monitors …

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A couple of quick notes from George Riedel’s speech that ended just a bit ago. Riedel is of course Nortel’s Chief Strategy Officer.

Riedel focused a lot on the evolving portfolio focus from mature products to growth. He had a really interesting slide (below) that expands a bit on the first slide that I posted previously from Mike Z’s preso.
Interesting note: Nortel already has 14 wins in 40 Gig — the solution just went GA in May.
Interesting note 2: Nortel has doubled the size of our healthcare business in the last year.

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I’m an old wireless guy by trade. I used to do wireless PR for Nortel. My first cellphone was a black Radio Shack brick. So being at a show like HIMSS08 in Orlando, where there’s strong Wi-Fi coverage throughout a good portion of the Orange County Convention Center, is… well, quite amazing compared to where things started for me 20 or so years ago.

But as amazing as it is to have convenient Wi-Fi access to check my e-mail and blog, it’s nothing compared to how wireless technology is revolutionizing healthcare.

Take Memorial Hospital at Gulfport, for example. After retiring its paper medical records …

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