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Nortel Ramps Up R&D
By Mark Evans | July 3, 2007
With Wi-Max one of its strategic priorities, Nortel is spending $100-million on R&D to develop the technology as opposed to $10-million a year ago. The dramatic increase is one component of Nortel’s new approach to R&D, which is focused on emerging technology rather than “late life cycle products”. John Roese, Nortel’s CTO, said a year ago late life-cycle products such as GSM accounted for 50% of Nortel’s R&D budget compared with 20% now. “Fifty percent on late life cycle products was inefficient,” Roese told ComputerWorld.
Topics: R&D |