Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Nortel has combined its carrier data and enterprise data teams into a single organisation in a move designed to strengthen its end-to-end convergence solutions and increase R&D effectiveness.
The realignment is part of Nortel's Business Transformation strategy aimed at simplifying its business, improving quality, reducing costs and generating new revenues. It follows the restructuring of Nortel, announced in September 2005, into two groups - Enterprise Solutions and Packet Networks led by Steve Slattery; and Mobility and Converged Core Networks led by Richard Lowe - "to better meet the needs of global enterprise and carrier customers in the converged marketplace."
Nortel says the formation of Converged Data Networks "strengthens this commitment by enabling Nortel to increase investment synergy across all products in the data portfolio to provide higher value solutions for both sets of customers."
Aziz Khadbai, a 16-year veteran of Nortel, will head the new unit as general manager Converged Data Networks reporting to Slattery.
According to Slattery: "This move, together with our recent acquisition of Tasman Networks, furthers our ability to provide feature-rich converged networks that support critical real-time applications including voice, video and multimedia applications."
Nortel purchased Tasman Networks in February for $US99.5 million "to provide a comprehensive end-to-end convergence solution and to round out the company's secure router portfolio for branch office environments."
Nortel also announced that it had strengthened its end-to-end converged networks portfolio with the general availability of the Nortel Secure Router portfolio, "extending the power of convergence from main office locations to branch offices."
The Nortel Secure Router 1000 portfolio comprises the 1001, 1002 and 1004 for small office and branch office deployments. It also includes the Secure Router 3120 for mid-range branch deployments.
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