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Identity Agents – Protecting Privacy of Information
Think about how many different places you’ve input personal information on the Internet and you’ll quickly realize, they’re far too numerous to remember. Besides social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn, varying levels of personal information are solicited across a broad swath of websites including banks, shopping or auction sites, government agencies, employers and any place we register for ‘free’ services.>>

Build it and They Will Come? Check User Research First
Not that many years ago, ‘build it and they will come’ for communications providers meant stringing a wired network across a region, then letting the subscriber fees roll in. User research amounted to little more than assessing the number of residents needed to support the cost of delivering dial tone.>>

The Hyperconnected: Here They Come!
The Internet, broadband access, camera phones, voice-over-IP, instant messaging, social networking, video uploading – all make obvious the increasing importance of communications and connectivity in our daily lives.>>

Virtualization – the ‘Green’ Power of Many Performing As One
They’re energy-thirsty titans, consuming billions in electricity costs each year to keep our addiction to online communications satisfied. Often filling huge rooms, or acres of buildings with computing equipment and cooling systems, data centers are at the heart of every business process, every Google search and the countless ways we use the Internet today for work or play.>>

ICT Industry Answers the Call of Climate Change
It’s the most complex network of all – our planet – and it’s starting to choke. So much so that experts worry its deterioration could cause crises unlike those faced by any generation in recent history.>>

Enterprise VoIP Can Confuse Emergency Response
Alone, working late, in a New York City office tower, an employee feels faint and calls 911. Before she can give her location to the emergency call center operator, she passes out. Based on her caller ID address information, an ambulance is dispatched but the multi-storey building doesn’t have front desk security so responders have no way of finding out where the woman’s office is located.>>

Web 2.0 Creates New Challenges to Secure Information Everywhere
Week after week, the variety of new ways security of information can be breached is making news headlines, from breaking into Paris Hilton's confidential Facebook account to unauthorized access of electronic passport files of U.S. presidential candidates.>>

40G to 100G – What’s all the Fuss About Optical Gigabits?
Preventing a worldwide bandwidth crisis hangs by a thread - a fiber-optic thread thinner than a human hair yet filled with untapped potential. And, that potential within each tiny fiber-optic thread is powerful enough to keep vast amounts of information like YouTube* videos flowing at the speed of light, when new network technologies meet the challenge of doing what many said couldn't be done.>>

WiMAX Powers Winds of Change across Dominican Republic
While all the cool things possible in communications today - instantly sharing YouTube video or accessing mobile business email on the go - are taken for granted in highly developed regions of the world, many other countries are still without broad, affordable access to both Internet and telephone services.>>

Advantages of Hyperconnectivity - No Longer Just for the Big Guys
Thanks to innovative solutions specially designed for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), simple yet sophisticated technologies like VoIP, unified communications and enhanced mobility are within reach of these business innovators.>>

Inventors Transform Possibilities into Patented Reality
The enduring strength of every major technology company relies on its team of creative inventors who transform dreams of technical possibilities into the reality of real-world benefits that become so much a part of daily life, they are easily taken for granted.>>

Santa’s Hyperconnected Christmas
Running an international business with suppliers and customers in all corners of the globe is a difficult task at the best of times, but what if all your billions of deliveries are all due on the same morning with overnight delivery to every home around the world?>>

SOA Sets Information Free For New Ways of Doing Business
Imagine a business process so effective a hotel could anticipate the needs of a guest before he even arrives, realizing an entire new level of customer satisfaction.>>

Healthcare – Right Information, at the Right Time
More Critical Than Ever
Aging 'baby boomers' and a shortage of skilled healthcare personnel worldwide is heightening the focus on new approaches to healthcare through information technologies designed to do more with less resources while improving the quality of medical services.>>

Telepresence – Saving Time, Money and the Environment
Today’s video conferencing using advanced telepresence technology replaces the hassle of travel while creating the feel of actually being in the same room as participants at other locations. By incorporating life-size, high-definition video with high-quality sound, telepresence can make any meeting, anywhere in the world as simple as walking into the boardroom next door.>>

Application Accelerators – Getting More From Less Bandwidth
When fed a daily diet of bandwidth-hungry applications like graphic-filled web sites and Powerpoint ladened emails, business networks can seem sluggish as fat data chokes the speedy flow of information essential to productivity.>>

Metro Ethernet Keeps Bandwidth Bandits on the Run
Bandwidth bandits, disguised as Internet videos, TV programs, and graphic-ladened web sites, are stealing every spare megabit they can find to choke the fast flow of information essential to business productivity and stall the enjoyment of real-time entertainment for consumers.>>

WiMAX – 4G Mobile Broadband for a Hyperconnected World
The 4G mobile broadband revolution is here and WiMAX is ready to help lead the way into a new wireless world of super-fast, high-bandwidth communications.>>

One Laptop Per Child Project Brings Affordable Computers to Developing Regions
While young people around the world take the Internet and its benefits to their education for granted, an estimated two billion children in the developing world are either inadequately educated or receive no education at all, let alone have access to computers as learning tools.>>

India’s Economic Revolution - The Dancing Elephant
With an average annual growth rate of 8.6 percent over the past three years, India has emerged as an economic powerhouse, shedding its longtime image as simply an exporter of services to become a knowledge hub for the world’s largest corporations.>>

Technology Going for Gold With First-Ever, Converged Network for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games
In the same way athletes around the world are already in training for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, technology specialists are focused on delivering a flawless performance for the Games first-ever, converged communications network.>>

Smarter Applications in the Hyperconnected World
Imagine every product in your home equipped with a wireless sensor communicating with the network about when it’s time to buy more.>>

International SOS Creating Global Virtual Office through Unified Communications
When International SOS looked to the future of its growing healthcare services business around the world, it recognized advanced communications technologies could enhance efficiency of response to patient inquiries while controlling escalating costs.>>

Pervasive, Personal Broadband – A New Era of Communications
The communications industry is entering a new era of unprecedented capabilities that promises a rate of technology innovation far surpassing any other era in recent history. The catalyst for this new era is increasing demand for “Personal Broadband” which ensures high-bandwidth, super-fast access to any application from any device and any location.>>

Just in Time Innovation – PBT Ethernet is up to the Video Challenge
For the first time, the simplicity, quality and cost savings of Ethernet's high-speed capabilities is being made available for metro networks through Nortel's pioneering of a breakthrough solution called Provider Backbone Transport (PBT).>>

Internet Video Driving Networks to Unprecedented Capabilities
The popularity of Internet video services like YouTube.com is driving an explosion in bandwidth demand unlike anything ever experienced in communications. Everyday, 100 million video clips are accessed on YouTube and overall, Internet video use is growing at a rate of 20 percent every five months, according to market research firm the Yankee Group.>>

Managed Network Services
for Business Made Simple
When communication services are at their simplest - accessed anywhere, anytime on any device - the complex networks delivering those services must be flawlessly managed to millisecond precision for reliability and security.>>

The Magic of OFDM-MIMO for Maximizing Airwaves
Ever increasing demand for higher bandwidth wireless services such as mobile video and IPTV is turning the world’s airwaves into a precious, dwindling resource.>>

Disaster Communications Planning
Withstands Katrina's Fury
When the devastating force of Hurricane Katrina struck southern Louisiana in late August 2005, the city of Baton Rouge’s advance planning to secure its communications against disasters was put to the most demanding, ultimate test.>>

Nortel's Strategy to Drive Business Made Simple
The hallmark of well-managed companies is the ability to strike an effective balance between short-term execution and longer-term planning and investment.>>

Microsoft and Nortel Alliance To Advance Communications Convergence
The convergence of the communications and IT industries took a significant step forward recently as Microsoft Corp. and Nortel announced a strategic alliance - called the Innovative Communications Alliance - based on a shared vision for Unified Communications.>>

Convergence for Enterprises Gaining Momentum in China
Stephen Tsui, chief operating officer and president, Enterprise Networks, Greater China for Nortel explores the reasons for the growing interest of IP-based network convergence among large and small China enterprises.>>

Keeping Pace With Customer Service In India's Expanding Mobile Market
Nortel's signing of a five-year managed services agreement with Bharti Airtel Limited will bring major business benefits to both companies. Ravi Chauhan, vice president, India Enterprise Solutions for Nortel, elaborates on the groundbreaking deal.>>

IMS For the Intuitive Network - Every Wish, Its Command
It knows where you are every second of the day, what services you need and how you want to access them. The "intuitive" network is an all-aware servant, every wish its command, made possible by emerging IMS technologies that promise to bring unprecedented levels of personalization, security and mobility to communications.>>

To VoIP -- Or Not To VoIP? Answer Is 'Yes' For Cable Operators
With telephone calls over the Internet now coming of age through advanced VoIP technologies, the 100 year old boundaries between telephone companies (telcos) and other communications providers are blurring, giving an unprecedented range of choice in services for business and consumers.>>