Driving Productivity and Efficiency for Municipal Operations, Increasing
Public Safety and Fueling Economic Development
TORONTO, Oct. 23 /CNW/ - Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) is increasing investments
in its Municipal Wireless Solution and services to help municipalities easily
bring affordable broadband services to their citizens. This includes opening a
municipal wireless lab, launching new promotions for its Municipal Wireless
Solution and accelerating collaboration with some of the industry's leading
applications vendors.
"We are committed to helping communities make wireless broadband services
affordable and available to everyone," said Dietmar Wendt, president, Global
Services, Nortel. "Nortel's Municipal Wireless Solution and simplified
business models are helping customers maximize return on investment through
improved productivity and efficiency of government operations, increased
public safety and new economic growth. Municipal wireless is one of the key
strategic areas that will help drive Nortel's business momentum and growth,
and we plan to invest heavily in new resources that will help us lead this
market."
Nortel combines a comprehensive portfolio of Wireless Mesh, Wireless LAN
and WiMAX technologies with a full suite of Nortel Global Services, giving
customers the solutions they need to design, deploy, support and evolve
municipal wireless networks. Nortel's global experience designing, launching
and installing hundreds of public and private wireless networks helps
customers offset risk in building privately-funded networks. For
municipalities interested in partnering with private sector companies, Nortel
can help connect customers with operators that best meet the economic
development and public safety needs of the community.
Nortel's dedicated municipal wireless lab is located in Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina and showcases the Company's entire Municipal Wireless
Solution. The lab focuses on research and development of broadband wireless
solutions that will allow municipalities and operators to realize simplified
introduction of new wireless services and applications to boost economic
development, improve public safety and give citizens easier access to
government services. The lab also gives Nortel a collaborative environment in
which to fully test and integrate an expansive ecosystem of partners to
provide municipal applications.
Nortel is working with 121Media, Inc., Accela, Inc., Aptilo Networks,
Blue Vector Systems, NetMotion Wireless, Pronto Networks and smarTVideo(TM)
Technologies, Inc. to offer enhanced broadband wireless applications. These
applications include in-vehicle communication services, automated meter
reading, digital video surveillance, asset or fleet tracking and monitoring,
subscriber management and access control and mobile television. In addition,
Nortel's Municipal Wireless Solution leverages the Nortel Multimedia
Communication Server 5100 to give customers access to a broad range of voice
and collaboration tools such as instant messaging and video and audio
conferencing.
"Through Nortel and NetMotion Wireless collaboration, police officers,
firefighters, inspectors and other public safety employees will have the
ability to securely and seamlessly roam while maintaining session persistence
with mission-critical applications such as background checks or video
surveillance," said John Knopf, director of product management, NetMotion
Wireless. "For years, NetMotion Wireless' Mobility XE software has provided
secure, remote access to the public safety market, enabling real-time access
to information that keeps workers productive as they roam seamlessly across a
variety of networks. Our expertise in this market paired with Nortel's strong
presence in the municipal wireless space will allow many new customers to
experience the power of our combined solutions."
To help municipalities and operators realize the benefits of broadband
wireless services, Nortel is offering customers 'get started' wireless mesh
kits in five and 10 wireless access point bundles. From hardware to
installation, these cost-effective packages include everything a municipality
needs to quickly deploy a full mesh environment.
Nortel's Municipal Wireless Solution is being used in the largest
municipal wireless network in the world by the Taipei City government in
Taipei, Taiwan and by Golden Telecom in Europe's largest wireless mesh network
in Moscow, Russia. Golden Telecom is also conducting trials with Nortel's
Mobile WiMAX solution.
From rural to urban deployments, Nortel's Municipal Wireless Solution is
being used by governments and operators in multiple countries, including
Ariel, an Israeli settlement located on the West Bank; Annapolis Wireless in
Annapolis, Maryland; Bell Canada in the Township of Chapleau, Ontario; the
City of Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Marshalltown, Iowa; Richardson, Texas; Simply Surf
in Dunrobin, Ottawa and the Special Areas Board of Alberta, Canada.
About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities
that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and
secure and protect the world's most critical information. Our next-generation
technologies, for both service providers and enterprises, span access and core
networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications, and help
eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying
networks and connecting people with information. Nortel does business in more
than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at
www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.
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operating results; reduced demand and pricing pressures for its products due
to global economic conditions, significant competition, competitive pricing
practice, cautious capital spending by customers, increased industry
consolidation, rapidly changing technologies, evolving industry standards,
frequent new product introductions and short product life cycles, and other
trends and industry characteristics affecting the telecommunications industry;
the sufficiency of recently announced restructuring actions, including the
potential for higher actual costs to be incurred in connection with these
restructuring actions compared to the estimated costs of such actions and the
ability to achieve the targeted cost savings and reductions of Nortel's
unfunded pension liability deficit; any material and adverse affects on
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particular products prove to be wrong or because of certain barriers in its
efforts to expand internationally; any reduction in Nortel's operating results
and any related volatility in the market price of its publicly traded
securities arising from any decline in its gross margin, or fluctuations in
foreign currency exchange rates; any negative developments associated with
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result of using a sole supplier for key optical networking solutions
components, and any defects or errors in Nortel's current or planned products;
any negative impact to Nortel of its failure to achieve its business
transformation objectives, including completion of the sale of its UMTS access
business to Alcatel; additional valuation allowances for all or a portion of
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rights, or any adverse judgments or settlements arising out of disputes
regarding intellectual property; changes in regulation of the Internet and/or
other aspects of the industry; Nortel's failure to successfully operate or
integrate its strategic acquisitions, or failure to consummate or succeed with
its strategic alliances; any negative effect of Nortel's failure to evolve
adequately its financial and managerial control and reporting systems and
processes, manage and grow its business, or create an effective risk
management strategy; and (iii) risks and uncertainties relating to Nortel's
liquidity, financing arrangements and capital including: the impact of
Nortel's most recent restatement and two previous restatements of its
financial statements; any inability of Nortel to manage cash flow fluctuations
to fund working capital requirements or achieve its business objectives in a
timely manner or obtain additional sources of funding; high levels of debt,
limitations on Nortel capitalizing on business opportunities because of credit
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provisions of indentures governing certain of Nortel's public debt issues and
the provisions of its credit facilities; any increase of restricted cash
requirements for Nortel if it is unable to secure alternative support for
obligations arising from certain normal course business activities, or any
inability of Nortel's subsidiaries to provide it with sufficient funding; any
negative effect to Nortel of the need to make larger defined benefit plans
contributions in the future or exposure to customer credit risks or inability
of customers to fulfill payment obligations under customer financing
arrangements; any negative impact on Nortel's ability to make future
acquisitions, raise capital, issue debt and retain employees arising from
stock price volatility and further declines in the market price of Nortel's
publicly traded securities, or any future share consolidation resulting in a
lower total market capitalization or adverse effect on the liquidity of
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these and other factors, see Nortel's Annual Report on Form 10-K/A, Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q and other securities filings with the SEC. Unless
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intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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