John Roese’s Blog CTO, Nortel

Location: Ottawa, Canada

Thanks to all for the comments and dialogue on the previous posts. Today, I'll get back to discussing technology, which is the real purpose of this blog.

One of the goals that drives me and certainly one of the big challenges and opportunities for the industry is to figure out how we can achieve a better-than-reality communications experience through the use of technology.

I wanted to share with you an event that happened at Nortel this week that represents a step on that journey.

Yesterday, I held a global employee session within a virtual mixed-reality world, using a prototype platform we’re investigating as part of an incubation effort. We had 150+ people participating in the virtual environment, hundreds of others ...

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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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As I indicated in my post yesterday, I invited Richard Lowe, the president of Nortel’s Carrier Networks organization, to do a guest blog on Nortel’s 4G strategy, in order to address the considerable dialog around that topic recently and to address some of the very specific questions that have emerged.

Richard Lowe

I appreciate the opportunity to articulate and clarify Nortel’s wireless strategy. I thought the best way to do that would be to directly tackle some of the comments and questions that Paul Stevens asked.

1) You’ve opted out of 3G. How do you compete ...

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Location: Ottawa

Based on the recent dialog around 4G, I’ve invited Richard Lowe, the president of Nortel’s Carrier Networks group, to do a guest blog on Nortel’s 4G strategy, which he’s agreed to do and which I expect to post within the next couple of days. Because Richard ultimately owns the delivery and execution of our 4G solutions, his views are obviously very relevant. In the meantime, a few observations on the dialog from my last entry…

As a level set, there is a huge difference between strategy and tactics. Strategy is a long-term sustainable view of where you want to take a company, market or technology. Tactics are what you do today, tomorrow and the next day ...

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