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Nortel Focuses Municipal Wireless Investments, Partnerships to Accelerate Broadband Deployments
Nortel Focuses Municipal Wireless Investments, Partnerships to Accelerate Broadband Deployments.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nDriving Productivity and Efficiency for Municipal Operations, Increasing\nPublic Safety and Fueling Economic Development\n\nTORONTO, Oct. 23 /CNW/ - Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) is increasing investments\nin its Municipal Wireless Solution and services to help municipalities easily\nbring affordable broadband services to their citizens. This includes opening a\nmunicipal wireless lab, launching new promotions for its Municipal Wireless\nSolution and accelerating collaboration with some of the industry's leading\napplications vendors.\n\"We are committed to helping communities make wireless broadband services\naffordable and available to everyone,\" said Dietmar Wendt, president, Global\nServices, Nortel. \"Nortel's Municipal Wireless Solution and simplified\nbusiness models are helping customers maximize return on investment through\nimproved productivity and efficiency of government operations, increased\npublic safety and new economic growth. Municipal wireless is one of the key\nstrategic areas that will help drive Nortel's business momentum and growth,\nand we plan to invest heavily in new resources that will help us lead this\nmarket.\"\nNortel combines a comprehensive portfolio of Wireless Mesh, Wireless LAN\nand WiMAX technologies with a full suite of Nortel Global Services, giving\ncustomers the solutions they need to design, deploy, support and evolve\nmunicipal wireless networks. Nortel's global experience designing, launching\nand installing hundreds of public and private wireless networks helps\ncustomers offset risk in building privately-funded networks. For\nmunicipalities interested in partnering with private sector companies, Nortel\ncan help connect customers with operators that best meet the economic\ndevelopment and public safety needs of the community.\nNortel's dedicated municipal wireless lab is located in Research Triangle\nPark, North Carolina and showcases the Company's entire Municipal Wireless\nSolution. The lab focuses on research and development of broadband wireless\nsolutions that will allow municipalities and operators to realize simplified\nintroduction of new wireless services and applications to boost economic\ndevelopment, improve public safety and give citizens easier access to\ngovernment services. The lab also gives Nortel a collaborative environment in\nwhich to fully test and integr...