By John
30 July 2007
11:30 am
Location: On vacation
In the last few weeks, Nortel has received a reasonable amount of press about our announcement of the Unwired Enterprise initiative. In this announcement, we identified a timeframe on one of the biggest outstanding questions in the Enterprise landscape: “When will wireless technology be sufficient to eliminate the need to wire new buildings and facilities for LAN access?”
The challenge with this question is that the answer is pretty subjective. Five or more years ago, many enterprises began using Wi-Fi as a primary access network in branch offices and remote sites but to this date most, if not all, still fully wire new buildings for wireline access in large sites and campuses. The main reason is that ...
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By John
16 July 2007
3:55 pm
Location: Flying to Boston
As we began our focus at Nortel on addressing the reality of the hyperconnected world, it became obvious that in addition to all of the fantastic gains that will come from being more connected, wherever you are, and via whatever device or application you need, that there will also be a cost. That cost will mostly be seen in the added complexity of living and operating in a world where an enterprise might have a million nodes to manage and billions of sessions to support. It might also be a world where the Internet is measured in trillions of devices and sessions. Because we, as the IT industry, have never before operated at that scale, we ...
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