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Companies of all kinds are going green, with corporate boards and management teams putting eco-friendly policies at the top of their objectives.  Brockmann & Company*  reported that being green and being seen to be green helps your brand too - 72 percent of business users say their impressions of a suppliers' brand improves when positioned as being green.

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With that nudge, your organization is likely seeking ways to reduce carbon emissions and reduce energy consumption. And like many, you're finding that going green has other surprising benefits, like saving time and money, too.

Using Nortel products and services can significantly reduce your costs and energy consumption. If you want energy efficiency, turn to Nortel.

• Independent testing by the  Tolly Group concluded  that "Nortel PoE switches are the "greenest" using 56% less power than Cisco devices tested and 41% less power than HP devices tested."
• Deploying Nortel products instead of Cisco products can cut energy consumption costs in half and save corporations up to $100K per year in energy costs—based on modeling with the Nortel Energy Efficiency Calculator.
• Nortel Services-Powered Telepresence significantly reduces air travel and subsequently your carbon footprint. The solution combines services and equipment to create a fully immersive, real-to-life experience despite distance limitations.

Telepresence greatly reduces air travel. According to the David Suzuki foundation, air travel accounts for four to nine percent of the total climate change impact of human activity. Get out of planes, taxis and airports—you’ll dramatically cut your travel costs and still meet face-to-face through Telepresence.

Nortel Telepresence uses high-definition, life-sized screens and surround sound for a real immersive experience that you have to see to believe. Nortel Telepresence Services make it a complete turn-key, hands-off solution including proactive testing and monitoring, conference set-up and 24x7 real-time support.

Nortel is committed to contributing to the protection of the environment, and we strive to lead by example.

• Nortel's engineers have been following Nortel's "Design for Environment" guidelines for more than a decade to ensure Nortel products are energy efficient.
• Nortel has been a member of the North American Dow Jones Sustainability Index for three years, the most-respected global index tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide.
• Nortel is the Platinum sponsor of FORTUNE magazine's 2008  Brainstorm: GREEN conference .
• The Sustainable Enterprise Report: Turning Awareness into Action.
• Our award-winning GreenCommute program (in Ottawa, Toronto, Raleigh and Boston) provides incentives to employees who carpool, bike or take public transit to work.
• Nortel Investment Recovery Centers in Canada, the United States and Europe recycle, reuse or resell 96.5 percent of all goods they receive from customers and Nortel offices, such as obsolete or upgraded equipment.

Nortel can be your resource to achieve your green goals for 2008 and beyond. And your savings will definitely make a difference.

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