Nortel Teams up with TELUS to Develop New Multimedia Infrastructure
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VANCOUVER, Sept. 12 /Nortel(NYSE/TSX: NT) is working with TELUS, a leading Canadian telecommunications company, to integrate advanced multimedia and communications products from across the industry into TELUS' IP services as they emerge.
"TELUS is working closely with Nortel to create a unique communications and entertainment experience for our customers that we call the Future Friendly Home," said Ibrahim Gedeon, chief technology officer, TELUS. "We are building an innovative platform that will provide us differentiated services today and as we move into the future with a converged(TM) multimedia-centric infrastructure."
"We are working with TELUS to create an open, standards-based IPTV network that uses best-in-class products from across the industry," added Dietmar Wendt, president, Global Services, Nortel. "Our relationship is strong evidence of how Nortel's world-class technology and systems integration expertise can help service providers successfully design and deploy end-to-end video solutions."
The integration of IP-based multimedia technologies into the TELUS network is important to provide investment protection over the long term. Nortel brings a wealth of SIP-based solutions to the table that is targeted for voice and video convergence as part of this new initiative.
"It was important to find a partner like Nortel who could provide an evolution path to a converged services environment that incorporates IPTV as one of many applications," said Gedeon. "To facilitate the rapid adoption of additional third party applications as they emerge, it is imperative that the environment be open and standards-based."
The TELUS IPTV deployment is the latest investment in an ongoing and significant program that has seen the company invest more than C$1 billion in wireline broadband infrastructure since launching its high speed internet service in 1997.
Nortel is showcasing a live IPTV demonstration at this week's Broadband World Forum in Vancouver, where TELUS is the official host sponsor. Nortel brings to market a comprehensive IPTV solution that is pre-integrated and pre-tested to help ensure deployments of IPTV are reliable, scaleable and secure. Nortel's Global Services for IPTV can accelerate IPTV time-to-revenue by providing a single point-of-contact across all vendors, and a proven methodology that can guide customers from inception to solution, including the entire lifecycle of design, integration, and deployment.
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 nortel.com/news.
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $8.4 billion of annual revenue and 10.4 million customer connections including 4.7 million wireless subscribers, 4.6 million wireline network access lines and 1.05 million Internet subscribers. The company's strategic intent is to unleash the power of the Internet to deliver the best solutions to Canadians at home, in the workplace and on the move. TELUS provides customers with a wide range of wireline and wireless communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment and video services. For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.
Source: Nortel
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Bo Gowan
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