Nortel to Play Ball with the Mets

Citi Field
Nortel has signed a multi-year agreement to provide a unified communications system for the new Citi Field in New York, where the New York Mets will play their homes games. As part of the deal, Nortel will become the Mets’ official network systems supplier.

The agreement is part of a multi-million dollar network being installed within the 42,000-seat stadium that will include as many as 250 Wi-Fi hotspots, wireless ticket scanning, the ability for fans to order food from their seats using a wireless system, and 70 call-centre agents using an IP-based phone system.

Nortel clearly has a thing for baseball as its equipment has been used in half of the Major League Baseball parks that are either new or under renovation.

Last month, Nortel became the seventh tier one supplier to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. It will provide British Telecom with equipment to deploy secure and robust wide WANs, wireless LANs, and call centre and fixed telephony infrastructure.

Nortel will have exclusive marketing rights and usage rights to the London 2012 brand within its the telecom equipment sector.

(Source: Nortel press release)

For more, check out Douglas Schweitzer’s blog post on ComputerWorld.

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    Cisco=Yankees
    Nortel=Mets

    Maybe Shea Stadium could become a new legacy Nortel R&D lab; DMS would fit right in.

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    At least the Mets are winning. The Yankees won't even make the playoffs at the rate they are going. I thought Cisco owned the Okland A's? (who are even worse than the Yankees)

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