Category Archives: R&D

Nortel’s WiMax Dreams

By Mark Evans | Published: January 1, 2007

By now, everyone knows Nortel is counting on WiMax as a key strategic pillar. For more check out an interview with Peter MacKinnon, general manager of Nortel’s WiMAX business unit and chairman of the LG-Nortel joint venture, who said his team lobbied to increase the WiMax-related R&D budget to $50-million a year from $25-million in [...]

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Nortel Opens Turkish Centre

By Mark Evans | Published: November 6, 2006

Last week, the international story was Nortel’s expanded R&D facilities in China; this week, it’s a new global operations centre of excellence in Turkey that will create 300 jobs. Nortel said the new facilities are part of its efforts to eliminate more than 100 global centers to create a smaller group of centres of excellence. [...]

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Nortel Still Canada’s R&D King

By Mark Evans | Published: October 18, 2006

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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Nortel Looks to Expand in India

By Mark Evans | Published: September 11, 2006

As part of Nortel’s cost efficiency drive, it is looking to source more R&D from places such as China and India. Nortel is already using more than 1,000 employees of India’s Wipro, which recently celebrated its 15th anniversary working with Nortel on R&D. Wipro now provides Nortel with design, system integration, consulting, software release management and [...]

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Nortel Setting Up Shop in India

By Mark Evans | Published: August 24, 2006

As Nortel drives to slash operating costs, it is creating a product design, development and testing centure in Bangalore, India that will employ 100 engineers by the end of the year. The team will work on Ethernet switching, security and VoIP. About 70 of these engineeers will come from Tasman Networks, which Nortel acquired for [...]

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Riddle of the Day: R&D

By Mark Evans | Published: August 15, 2006

Just a thought but…how come Nortel is still spending close to $1.9-billion a year on R&D when it’s apparently looking to focus on businesses with at least 20% market share. You would think that R&D would be among the areas where CEO Mike Zafirovski’s cost-cutting program would have tackled already.

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