Nortel reveals future ideas

Nortel is showing off solutions that will help its customers meet the challenges and reap the rewards of the era of Hyperconnectivity where more devices and applications are connected to the network.

It is demonstrating these to customers at its annual Advanced Technology Summit from October 14 to November 7 in Ottawa. By the time ATS is complete, Nortel will have delivered over 400 private technology demonstrations to over 200 customers from more than 50 different companies.  

There are more than 18 different Metro Ethernet Network application and infrastructure demonstrations, including 40G/100G optical solutions from Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks portfolio that can carry enough high-speed traffic to beat the bandwidth issue that looms because our growing obsession with HD and streaming video. 

New and emerging technologies born out of Nortel's open innovation laboratory are also on display, including: 

• Rendezvous application that uses the network to find the person you need to speak to and connect you when it's convenient for both, so nobody wastes time playing phone tag.  
• Video Social Network capabilities that allow you to build your TV playlist online, share your preferences with friends or get their picks on what to watch, then have it transfer directly to your set-top box.  
• Web services such as Delivery Alert, an application that tracks deliveries online and sends an alert when they are almost at your door. These are based on Nortel's Agile Communications Environment which uses Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology to allow operators to easily and quickly deploy new applications.
• Nortel's 4G wireless technology that delivers the mobile bandwidth needed to make connecting as fast and reliable as connecting to a wireline network.