When I took on the role of CTO for Nortel two years ago, I moved to Ottawa, which is home to Nortel’s largest site and the heart of much of the company’s R&D efforts (4500 of our 30,000+ employees are located here, and most of them are in R&D). Ottawa [...]
In the last few weeks there has been a large volume of dialog around which technology should define the “core packet transport” of the Internet. Mostly that dialog has been focused on the ongoing debate between the MPLS technology camp and the Carrier Ethernet camp. If you are not familiar [...]
In the past several months, I have been involved in a number of discussions around the world, where governments are trying to push for “next-generation” broadband as a government-sponsored initiative. The reason for this is that in the last decade many countries have used broadband roll-out as a way to [...]
Location: Flying to Vancouver First, let me apologize for being absent from blogging for a bit. I’ve had an unusually busy and complex several weeks. Hopefully, you all found the guest blog from Andy Lippman interesting and had a chance to see some of the recent dialog I have had [...]
Location: Ottawa, Canada First of all, thanks to everyone for the spirited commentary. I appreciate your passion. Although many of the comments were “off-topic” (as Bob pointed out in #26), I think for the most part it was a worthwhile and interesting dialogue. Although realistically I cannot possibly respond to [...]
For those of you who don't follow Om Malik’s blog, GigaOM, I’ve written a guest entry at the invitation of Om that you might find interesting ... A year or so ago, I began talking about how moving toward the 4G world of WiMAX and LTE (and UMB at that [...]
Location: Ottawa Over the last several months, a number of you have left comments or asked questions about Nortel’s strategy and direction. Some of you have also left similar comments and questions in other industry blogs and forums. I thought an interesting and more personal way to tackle some of [...]
Location: London, UK A few weeks ago I spent a day in Washington, DC with a wide range of regulators and government officials. My purpose was to discuss the Net Neutrality issue in addition to just spending quality time with some of the people who shape telecom policy in the [...]
