About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the world.
Nortel has long been a technology powerhouse, with an unparalleled history of innovation in the design, development, and deployment of products, systems, and solutions that have helped shape the very nature of modern communications and have delivered true value to our carrier and enterprise customers around the globe. This innovation has come through ground-breaking technology advances — many of them industry firsts — in such fundamental technologies as digital, optical, wireless, IP, VoIP, broadband, multimedia, and Ethernet.
Innovation is the force that changes the future and is the foundation for creating the value Nortel brings to customers around the world. Without innovation, the evolutionary path of most products, systems, and solutions can be predicted because it follows the line of natural progression. Maintaining that line takes good engineering and good management, but natural progression is not what will give our customers competitive advantage. Five years from now, the world's leading companies will not be on that line of natural progression. The leading companies — by putting together new combinations of technology — will be those who radically shift the natural evolutionary path to achieve quantum leaps in cost and performance benefits. That's the innovation Nortel strives for.
Today, Nortel is focusing its technology investments to make business made simple in this era of Hyperconnectivity. The company is working not only on ensuring today's infrastructure can continue to support the insatiable demand for connectivity and bandwidth, but also on the applications, services and solutions side. Together, these areas of focus will revolutionize the end-user experience. When fully realized, individuals will be able to access any application (including very high-bandwidth-intensive multi-media applications), from any device (including wireless devices), from any location.
Achieving this vision requires extensive knowledge of different products, technologies, and capabilities because the challenges that must be overcome (including fixed-mobile convergence, real-time communications handoff, true presence, the extension of enterprise applications to mobile devices, and carrier-grade enterprise mobility) are multi-dimensional, spanning the domains of wireless and wireline, carrier and enterprise, and infrastructure and applications.
To drive the transformation of today's networks, Nortel is investing in a variety of innovative technologies, primarily focused in the areas of 4G broadband wireless, Carrier Ethernet, optical, next-generation services and applications, unified communications, and secure networking.
Nortel is one of the few vendors with the knowledge and expertise to build the networks of the future. The company has a history of deploying mission-critical networks, a culture of real-world problem solving, and unique knowledge and expertise across public and private networks, fixed and mobile networks, and voice, data, and multimedia.