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Talking about Hyperconnectivity
By Mark Evans | January 9, 2008
Rich Tehrani, president and group editor in chief with TMC, did a Q&A recently with Tony Rybczynski (left), Nortel’s director of strategic enterprise technologies. Here’s an excerpt:
RT: What trends are you noticing in the communications market?
TR: Rather than going through a list of hot technologies (UC, WiMAX, 802.1111n, PBT, SIP, Web2.0, SOA and Communications Enabled Applications, and Green IT, to name a few), let me provide my perspectives on three industry developments that will be significant in 2008.
1. Enterprises will start to adopt FMC as more than a device specific proof of concept
2. Virtualization focus will shift from servers/storage in the data center to the network.
3. Leading-edge enterprises will start to reorient their IT organizations for convergence of IT and telecom. You could call this Organization 2.0.
RT: Did 2007 finish the way your company expected?
TR: Nortel is back and four quarters of double-digit revenue growth in the enterprise market proves it.
RT: Is 2008 going to be a better year than 2007?
TR: Absolutely 
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