Welcome to the nPower Partner Program, Nortel's Asia Pacific partner program aimed at empowering our valued business partners to effectively sell and support Nortel products and solutions to their customers.

Nortel has a number of objectives we see as key to creating a successful program for our business partners. These are to:

• Make Nortel easier to do business with.
• Solidify Nortel's commitment to selected business partners
• Provide a structured yet flexible program to manage the relationship between Nortel and its business partners
• Provide partners with guidelines and support for increasing potential revenue, profit and cash flow derived from the resale of Nortel products, solutions and services
• Provide partners with incentive to grow and expand the range of Nortel products, solutions and services they offer to the market
• Increase partners visibility and reach in the market as well as their competitive advantage

The nPower Partner Program has a number of different partnership designations: nForce Select Partner, Silver nPower Partner, Gold nPower Partner, Platinum nPower Partner and Distribution nPower Partner. Partnership designations are differentiated by a pre-set list of business, contractual, capability, authorisation and service/support requirements.

Partner Designations

Upon achieving these requirements, partners are eligible to receive a number of benefits according to their designation. Benefits include:

• Volume Incentive Value Incentive Discounts (VIVID)
• Marketing funds
• Account management resources
• Access to sell products
• Sales and service leads
• Resale of Nortel service programs
• Access to restricted web sites
• Demo/lab equipment discounts
• Partner recognition

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the worlds most critical information. Serving both service provider and enterprise customers, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the worlds greatest challenges.

nPower partners throughout the Asia Pacific region flourish in the successes of Nortel as a global communications leader.