John Roese’s Blog CTO, Nortel

Location: Ottawa

Over the last several months, a number of you have left comments or asked questions about Nortel’s strategy and direction. Some of you have also left similar comments and questions in other industry blogs and forums.

I thought an interesting and more personal way to tackle some of those questions – instead of just doing a long blog entry – would be for you to hear directly from George Riedel, our Chief Strategy Officer. So, just before the holiday break, I took the opportunity to do a podcast interview/have a conversation with George while we were both at Nortel’s headquarters in Toronto for various meetings.

I essentially asked him many of the questions that you’ve been asking ...

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Location: Toronto

I recently had a great discussion with Om Malik of GigaOM blog fame. Our dialog was on a broader discussion around Mark Cuban’s recent statements that the Internet is Dead, but in the course of the dialog we had a brief detour to talk about what is innovative and exciting in the communications industry. During that dialog the subject of the iPhone came up.

I was quoted early on (just before the launch) as saying that the iPhone, while exciting, was not that interesting in terms of its networking and infrastructure capability. Clearly, a GSM/GPRS phone is nothing new and even one with Wi-Fi isn’t that interesting from a transport discussion. Now, if ...

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Location: Ottawa, Canada

In my past two blog entries, I have begun to discuss “communications-enabled applications” - the second of the three mega-trends that I am convinced are reshaping the communications industry. (For those of you new to my blog, I introduced the concept of the three mega-trends in an earlier entry.)

Before I continue the dialog on redefining the applications space, I wanted to consider a few major events and activities that have happened in the industry in the past few weeks and how they are clearly showing that this second mega-trend is real and important to all of us.

The first event was VoiceCon in Orlando, Florida in early March. I had the pleasure ...

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Location: Flying from SFO to LAS en route to Ottawa

I wanted to post a quick note today not about technology or some interesting product but rather about the great response to the launch of my blog this week. I posted my first entry a few days ago while I was in Las Vegas at Nortel’s first-ever global sales conference (they’ve historically been regional) and, I must say, I’m truly amazed (and delighted) at the number of comments and the passion behind them. I wanted to take a few minutes to share my reaction to that.

First, thanks for the comments and response. External blogs are a new thing at Nortel and the fact that we had comments and observations from employees, ...

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