Nortel Networks

NSN faces rival bid for the wireless assets of Nortel

NME finds out from the region’s leading data centre specialists what essentials need to go into cutting-edge data centre design and the main trends in the Middle East.

Nokia Siemens Networks will buy LTE and CDMA divisions for US$650 million.

Despite facing some tough challenges at the corporate level, Canadian communications and network specialist Nortel remains upbeat about its enterprise and telecoms business in the Middle East.

Executive Briefing Centre will showcase and test new technologies for Nortel customers

John McHugh joins Nortel Networks as new general manager of enterprise solutions

Vendor insists action will give it “sound financial footing” but no word on how it will affect operations in the Middle East

NME looks back on the year to examine how enterprise network technology and deployments have changed and gained in strength.

Rodeo Drive, the 'epicentre of luxury fashion', is shrugging off the credit crunch and economic slowdown.

GITEX: Telecoms equipment maker sees wary attitude to IT investment in Europe.

Michel Clement, leader for the Southern Europe and MEA region, talks about why he's confident that Nortel will come out on top in the Middle East.

Network specialist to focus on hyperconnectivity issues at GITEX event.

Networking company has solutions for all levels of user.

Unified communications solutions to connect water treatment company

Pay dispute triggered strike action among Nortel workers at the company’s EMEA supply chain.

Broadcast and telco professionals remain divided over whether WiMAX wireless broadband networks will prove a blessing or a curse in the rush to establish mobile content delivery services. John Parnell investigates.

Research sponsored by Nortel reports that Instant Messaging (IM) will surpass email as the preferred form of business communication by second half of 2010

Growing number of workers connecting through multiple devices to communication and collaboration applications

Nortel infrastructure will allow Palestinian operator to enter lucrative multimedia markets

Philip Edholm, Chief Technology Officer & VP, Network Architecture, Enterprise discusses hyperconnectivity and convergence above the network

As delivery of service-oriented computing proliferates around the globe, the networking architectures of the Middle East are realigning to embrace this new trend. Adrian Bridgwater examines the issues at hand.

Alpha Data completes roll out of Nortel LAN to handle high bandwidth medical applications

Cisco loses out to Nortel on contract worth close to one million UAE dirhams to upgrade university's network infrastructure.

Arabian Computer News explores some of the critical issues behind datacentre infrastructure.

Canadian firm Nortel Networks posted a quarterly net loss last week despite an increase in sales year-on-year.

Many Middle East enterprises are contemplating or actually implementing VoIP . However, not so many pay attention to securing the application sufficiently. Encryption of VoIP traffic, along with a responsive network, can defend the enterprise better from all threats.

Nortel and Microsoft have broadened their partnership to offer carriers hosted unified communications services to target small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

Nortel has followed up its recent appointment of Aptec as a distributor for its SMB portfolio by signing Mantrac and Bright Star to address specific markets within the Middle East and North Africa region.

The American University in Cairo has teamed with Nortel and Symantec for part of the infrastructure of a multi-billion dollar new campus which will put the university at the forefront of IT implementation in the region.

The American University in Cairo has teamed with Nortel and Symantec on the construction of a new campus.

Networking equipment company Nortel Networks managed to narrow its loss for its 2006 fiscal fourth quarter, but warned revenues would be flat this year.

Global sales of optical network hardware rose 11% last year to reach US$11.9 billion, according to the latest figures from Infonetics Research.

The Sharjah Institute of Technology (SIT) is implementing ambitious technology upgrades with solutions from networking vendor designed to improve educational opportunity for all SIT's students.

Networking vendor Nortel is to slash around 3,000 jobs in the next two years as part of its ongoing business transformation plan, it said last week.

Alcatel-Lucent looks forward to a prosperous future in the Middle East region following conclusion of merger

Layoffs and acquisitions dominated the IT landscape in 2006, but there were also scandals aplenty and the small matter of Microsoft’s Vista OS

Network vendor Nortel has scored two contract wins in the region, announcing deals in Iraq and Egypt last month

NORTEL plans to accelerate its business transformation programme, the firm said as it announced its unaudited Q3 results.

Nortel’s CEO Mike Zafirovski believes that he and his management team can bring the good times back to the Canadian network giant. Tawanda Chihota reports

Having suffered a number of years of declining profits, allegations of financial impropriety and a declining market share, Nortel Networks is in need of a drastic turnaround. Recently appointed Nortel CEO and former Motorola senior executive, Mike Zafirovski believes that together with his management team, the opportunity exists to make Nortel great again. Tawanda Chihota reports from London.

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