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NEWS RELEASES: AUGUST 2008
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AUGUST 21, 2008
Nortel Acquires DiamondWare to Improve Virtual Web and Voice Communications
Nortel announced it has acquired DiamondWare, a pioneer in high-definition, proximity-based 3D positional voice technology that brings life-like sound to virtual web and voice communications. The acquisition furthers Nortel’s drive to transform communications to allow people to collaborate in more interactive and immersive ways.>>
AUGUST 21, 2008
Nortel to Develop Unique 3-D Virtual Web Tool for Online Collaboration
A group of R&D technologists within Nortel are developing a prototype that will harness the power of Web 2.0 and 3-D audio-visual virtual world technology to bring new dimensions to business collaboration.>>
AUGUST 20, 2008
Australia's New England Credit Union Unifies Rural Communications with Nortel and Microsoft
New England Credit Union, Australia's largest inland regional community credit union with more than 51,000 members, has chosen a unified communications solution from Nortel and Microsoft to reduce business costs and improve customer service.>>
AUGUST 19, 2008
Nortel Debuts Latest Unified Communications Solution for Web 2.0 Customer Care
Nortel is expanding its unified communications portfolio to give customer care centers the power to meet and exceed expectations in the Web 2.0 world, where customers increasingly insist on interacting with businesses regardless of time, device, or application. With a new easy-to-install software solution – the Nortel Interactive Communications Portal (ICP) – features such as IM, email and click-to-call can be quickly added to self-service and speech applications to expand service options beyond menu-driven interactive voice response (IVR).>>
AUGUST 15, 2008
Nortel Study Finds Chinese Manufacturers Embracing Unified Communications
CIOs of Chinese manufacturing companies recognize that unified communications solutions offer unprecedented opportunities to reduce costs, foster collaboration and improve their competitive position, according to a new China Computerworld (CCW) Research study, sponsored by Nortel.>>
AUGUST 14, 2008
Nortel Appoints Ray Teske as New President of Japan
Nortel has appointed Ray Teske as its new president, Japan, effective August 18. Teske’s new position includes responsibility for sales, operations and marketing for the Japanese market. Teske, formerly Global Accounts leader for Nortel Asia Pacific and Greater China, will replace Toshiyuki Hiramatsu, who will become the chairman of Nortel Japan and continue to support the company’s business and customer base in the country.>>
AUGUST 14, 2008
Terilogy to Improve Customer Response with Unified Communications Solutions from Nortel and Microsoft
Terilogy, a provider of next-generation network solutions, will be able to deliver more effective customer service and reduce costs while giving employees more flexible working practices after it completes implementation of a unified communications solution from Nortel and Microsoft.>>
AUGUST 13, 2008
Nortel Acquires Pingtel’s Business to Extend Unified Communications Capabilities
Nortel announced its acquisition of Pingtel Corp.’s business. U.S.-based Pingtel is a designer of software-based unified communications solutions and is owned by Bluesocket Inc, an enterprise mobility solutions provider. Pingtel will provide new software capabilities to Nortel’s enterprise unified communications portfolio, as well as additional research and development capabilities.>>
AUGUST 13, 2008
Nortel Unified Communications Improves Collaboration for Bank of Panhsin Staff
Staff at 47 branch offices of the Bank of Panhsin (BoP) are collaborating more effectively than ever after the bank implemented a unified communications solution from Nortel.>>
AUGUST 11, 2008
Nortel Dials Incumbent Out Of Major Hotel Development Group in Australia
Nortel has been selected to supply Asian Pacific Building Corporation (APBC) with unified communications, IP telephony and wireless capabilities that is expected to save the company more than A$ 300,000 over five years compared to its incumbent system.>>
AUGUST 07, 2008
Comstar to Bring Mobile Broadband to Moscow with Nortel’s WiMAX Solution
Comstar-United TeleSystems, Russia’s leading integrated telecommunications service provider, has chosen Nortel’s mobile (IEEE 802.16e) WiMAX solution for its network in Moscow. The new Comstar WiMAX wireless broadband network will provide users with high-speed Internet access to support mobile applications.>>
AUGUST 05, 2008
Nortel Offers Energy Savings Credit to Combat the “Cisco Energy Tax”**
To help North American enterprise data managers combat the “Cisco Energy Tax” and reduce operating costs, Nortel is offering an energy savings credit program for new customers of its data networking solutions.>>
AUGUST 04, 2008
LG-Nortel Acquires Novera Optics
LG-Nortel announced that it has closed the acquisition of Novera Optics Inc., a developer of fiber-optic access solutions that extend high-speed carrier Ethernet services from optical core networks to customer premises. LG-Nortel is a joint venture of LG Electronics and Nortel.>>
AUGUST 01, 2008
Nortel Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter 2008
Nortel Networks Corporation announced its results for the second quarter of 2008, demonstrating continued progress against the Company’s financial targets. Results were prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles in U.S. dollars.>>
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