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Nortel’s Wi-Max Strategy
By Mark Evans | October 2, 2006
If the telecom geeks out there, Telephony Online has an interview with Peter MacKinnnon, Nortel’s new Wi-Max manager, about the company’s strategy for the market. Wi-Max has been identified as one of the key focuses for Nortel by CEO Mike Zafirovski (the others being enterprise and solutions and services).
“Nortel more than any other vendor is touting its research and development and all-around technical savvy in WiMAX above all else. MacKinnon said Nortel has seven years of solid research in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) smart antenna technology under its belt and the intellectual property and patents to back it up,” the article proclaims.
While Wi-Max has lots of potential and supporters (Intel, Bell Canada, Nortel, etc.), the question is whether the technology will be able to establish a viable foothold within the telecom industry and, if so, how long it will take for carriers to embrace it. It’s one thing for Nortel to identify Wi-Max as a key strategic priority but it won’t matter much if the opportunity fails to materialize. MacKinnon, by the way, used to head up Nortel’s GSM/UMTS unit and, most recently, was president of the Nortel-LG joint venture.
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