All About Nortel

Nortel has raided the management ranks of Coca-Cola Co. to hire Ellen Bovarnick to oversee its SixSigma quality standards program, as well as manage customer satisfaction and process improvements. Bovarnick, who has been VP of business process excellence with Coca-Cola, will report to Joe Hackney, Nortel’s senior vice president of global operations and quality. (Source: [...]

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Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski has been named a finalist in Light Reading’s Leading Lights Awards in the public companies leadership category. The competition includces NeuStar CTO Mark Soster, JDS Uniphase CEO Kevin Kennedy, Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg, Verizon CTO Mark Wegleitner and Cisco Senior VP Mike Volpi. The winners will be announced November 15 at [...]

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Nortel chief technology officer John Roese sure ain’t shy these days. He seems to popping up in the news on a regular basis, weighing in on Wi-Max one day and how YouTube could break the Internet the next. He recently sat down for an interview with CNet in which he talked about Wi-Max, 4G, Nortel’s prospects [...]

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So let’s see if Nortel can walk the walk in addition to talking the talk. The company will post it third-quarter results on Nov. 7 and hold a conference call (teleconference/audio Webcast) from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. featuring CEO Mike Zafirovski and CFO Peter Currie. Here are the details: North America callers (888-211-4395) international [...]

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Another day, another technology with lots of potential for Nortel. Today, it’s multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology. Nortel believes it has the ability to double the number of subscribers that a cell site can support. Nortel is confident MIMO “creates a technological disruption that offers revolutionary improvement in wireless network capacity and provides a clear [...]

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There are lots of fascinating things about Nortel but most recently, it has been interesting to see how the company has unleased an ambitious public relations campaign featuring many of its senior executives. Whether it’s chief technology officer John Roese talking about the need for more bandwidth, or chief strategy officer George Riedel speculating about [...]

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In news that can’t be music to the ears of telecom equipment vendors such as Nortel, Gartner said $100-billion will be wasted on network services and products over the next five years. According to ComputerWorld, Gartner analysts Mark Fabbi said network executives should focus on spending plans to meet their needs over the next two [...]

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Just when you thought Nortel was only focused on Wi-Max, it comes out with an ambitious plan to tackle the Wi-Fi market as well. In a press release, the company said it is “increasing its investments” (didn’t provide details on how many dollars are involved) by creating a new municipal Wi-Fi lab, launching a new [...]

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Nortel CTO John Roese, who seems to have been in the news a lot recently, said the growth of video on the Web will inevitably cause carriers to increase network capacity as the glut of bandwidth built during the last telecom boom starts to evaporate. In an interview with Reuters, Roese said the metro ethernet [...]

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Once again, Nortel topped Canada’s R&D spending list with $2.25-billion in 2005 even though this was a 12% drop from 2004, according to Research Infosource Inc. This placed it well ahead Bell Canada, which was second with $1.74-billion. Overall, the 100 biggest companies spent $12-billion, a 4.9% increase. “The R&D outlook is optimistic,” Ron Freeman, CEO [...]

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