Nortel news from Network World

Sick of travel costs, Deloitte embraces Nortel telepresence

Jim Duffy — 2008-07-08T00:00:00Z

Nortel this week said professional services firm Deloitte has selected it to provide global telepresence, video conferencing and associated multimedia services.

Avaya, Cisco address VoIP vulnerabilities

Tim Greene — 2008-06-26T00:00:00Z

Avaya and Cisco have addressed a VoIPshield Laboratories report that their VoIP gear is vulnerable to a variety of attacks. The vulnerabilities also impact certain Nortel gear.

Avaya, Cisco and Nortel face VoIP vulnerabilities

Tim Greene — 2008-06-24T00:00:00Z

VoIP customers of Avaya, Cisco and Nortel should look Wednesday for patches that correct newly found vulnerabilities that, if exploited, can result in remote code execution; unauthorized access; denial of service; and information harvesting.

Vendors tout unified communications and FMC advances

Steve Taylor,Larry Hettick — 2008-06-23T00:00:00Z

Today we'll highlight a few announcements made at NXTcomm 2008 which wrapped up last week in Las Vegas. The news comes in separate announcements about unified communications advances from Verizon, Microsoft and Nortel, while the next two items come from NextPoint and Taqua (on fixed-mobile convergence).

Ex-Nortel execs charged in accounting scandal

Jim Duffy — 2008-06-19T00:00:00Z

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police this week charged three former Nortel executives with fraud stemming from an accounting scandal that led to their ouster in 2004.

Why Nortel chose LTE over WiMAX

Jim Duffy — 2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

Cross WiMAX off the list of hot growth markets Nortel plans to tackle in the coming years to boost its fortunes.

Nortel picks LTE over WiMAX

2008-06-11T00:00:00Z

Going forward, Nortel Networks will focus on LTE, with WiMax products dropped in favor of working with Israeli vendor Alvarion, the company announced.

Unified Communications Pervades the Enterprise, Part 2

Steve Taylor,Larry Hettick — 2008-06-09T00:00:00Z

Picking up from our last newsletter, today we'll look further into a study about unified communications that at Steve Taylor and Joanie Wexler just completed. Their research showed that unified communications is clearly making its way into the planning fabric of traditional IT organizations. For the survey, unified communications was defined as "presence-enabled communications that integrates telephony, desktop, and business applications to deliver a unified user experience and to streamline desktop and business processes."

Unified Communications Pervades the Enterprise, Part 1

Steve Taylor,Larry Hettick — 2008-06-04T00:00:00Z

Steve Taylor (the handsome one pictured above with the beard) and Joanie Wexler (who authors the Network World Wireless Alert) just completed a study about unified communications, and their research showed that unified communications is clearly making its way into the planning fabric of traditional IT organizations. Using a Web-based survey of about 800 members of two large Nortel user groups, 58% of the respondents indicated that they were "more interested" or "substantially more interested" in deploying unified communications than they were 12 months ago.

Sneak Preview: Unified Communications Pervades the Enterprise

Steve Taylor,Jim Metzler — 2008-05-29T00:00:00Z

Next week, in conjunction with the Global Connect 2008 conference in Dallas, a study conducted by Webtorials' Editorial/Analyst Division on Enterprise adoption of Unified Communications will be released. The study consists of survey responses from about 800 users, all of whom were members of Nortel's user groups.

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