TORONTO, ONTARIO--(MARKET
WIRE)--Aug 15, 2007 -- Nortel(1) (Toronto:NT.TO
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News) (NYSE:NT
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News) is teaming up with leading universities across the
globe to develop new innovations that will help meet the
growing demand for
4G mobile broadband applications like video, mobile TV and
other multimedia services.
Nortel's collaborative
research with universities supports the new era of
communications that is characterized by
Hyperconnectivity, where everything that can be connected
will be connected - encompassing person-to-person
communication, person-to-machine and machine-to-machine.
To increase its competitive
advantage and foster new 4G mobile broadband technologies,
Nortel has expanded its existing long-standing research
partnerships with leading universities like the University of
Waterloo in Canada, The University of Texas at Austin in the
U.S., and National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taiwan. Nortel
has also formed new partnerships with Mera Networks in Russia
and Technische Universitaet Ilmenau in Germany. Nortel's
investigations with these universities are designed to improve
spectral efficiency, and decrease time to market for Nortel's
4G mobile broadband solutions, which include Mobile
WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e), and the
Long Term Evolution (LTE) and
Ultra Mobile Broadband (UMB) cellular standards.
"Through these university
partnerships Nortel is sharing knowledge and expertise
critical to identifying new disruptive technologies that help
improve spectrum efficiencies and cost advantages that our
service provider customers need," said John Hoadley, leader,
4G Business and Ecosystem Development, Carrier Networks,
Nortel. "Nortel is also laying the foundation for a future
hyperconnected communication experience, where the number of
devices and applications connected to the network will be
greater than the number of people using the network."
Nortel is expanding its
existing relationship with the University of Waterloo which
was announced in 2006 with Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Nortel is working closely
with the Coding and Signal Transmission (CST) group of the
University of Waterloo to increase the capacity of the future
wireless networks through advanced multi-user transmission
techniques. As part of its expanded partnership, Nortel is
utilizing Waterloo's on-campus research facilities to allow
students and faculty to test and develop next-generation
wireless technologies.
As an affiliate sponsor of
The University of Texas at Austin's Wireless Networking and
Communications Group (WNCG), Nortel has been working with the
university on the development of advanced 4G mobile broadband
technologies, including
MIMO-OFDM. MIMO and related advanced antenna technologies
will help improve the spectral efficiency, network coverage
and capacity of cellular base stations. This empowers service
providers to deliver higher speed data applications including
mobile video, gaming and other high-speed data transfers.
Nortel and UT also have plans to work on advanced multi-user
MIMO technologies and relay links to extend the coverage of
cellular base stations. The goal is to enable a "true
broadband" 4G experience everywhere by blanketing an area with
small, relay access nodes, rather than costly base stations,
to ensure high-speed, high-bandwidth capabilities.
Nortel announced
collaboration with the Graduate Institute of Business
Administration and the Electrical Engineering department of
NTU on a WiMAX broadband service trial in 2006. The Nortel
team is currently working with researchers at NTU on WiMAX
proof of concept activities and interoperability testing
geared at ensuring an end-to-end ecosystem is in place to
support the widespread adoption of WiMAX. The work done with
NTU will help to deliver enhanced capabilities over 4G WiMAX
such as multimedia video conferencing with voice, video and
IM, and location-based applications.
Nortel is also working with
Mera Networks, the largest Russian Telecom R&D services
provider and Technische Universitaet Ilmenau in Germany to
develop advanced combinations of spatial processing and MIMO
technologies. These advanced wireless radio techniques will
improve network performance and increase capacity by re-using
spectrum resources by as much as 4x over conventional systems.
This will help improve the end user mobile broadband
experience and allow carriers to deliver more high-speed data,
including video and other multimedia services, more
efficiently.
Nortel invests in
approximately 50 technology innovation initiatives with more
than 20 major universities and research consortia around the
world to help fuel a new era of communications where all
things and information are connected to an intelligent,
pervasive mobile broadband network.
About
Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader
in delivering communications capabilities that make the
promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers.
Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider
and enterprise networks, support multimedia and
business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are
designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency,
speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting
people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel
does business in more than 150 countries around the world. For
more information, visit Nortel on the Web at
www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit
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