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9 unusual facts about Nortel


Brun's theorem

The digits of Brun's constant was used in a bid of $1,902,160,540 in the Nortel patent auction.

Criticism of Yahoo!

Yahoo!, along with Google China, Microsoft, Cisco, AOL, Skype, Nortel and others, has cooperated with the Chinese Communist Government in implementing a system of internet censorship in mainland China.

Early 2000s recession

For much of the 1990s the rapid rise of the TSX had almost wholly been attributed to two stocks: Nortel and BCE.

Jay Salkini

While at Siemens, he continued graduate study and received his master of computer engineering degree, and three years later joined Nortel as a consultant.

Joseph-Rosaire Thibaudeau

Thibaudeau was a member of the first Board of directors, Bell Telephone Company of Canada (Bell Canada)in 1880, and Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company Limited (Nortel).

Marc O'Riain

He soon found himself project managing teams on large and small commercial interiors projects and won his first of many awards with an Excellence in Application Award from Nortel in 1999.

Nortel Discovery Protocol

The Nortel Discovery Protocol (NDP) is a Data Link Layer (OSI Layer 2) network protocol for discovery of Nortel networking devices and certain products from Avaya and Ciena.

Stalking horse offer

On 4 April 2011, TechCrunch reported Google's intention to pursue a $900 million stalking horse bid for Nortel's patents.

Thomas Cowherd

Telephone production later resumed in Montreal, eventually leading to the creation of Northern Electric, later renamed Northern Telecom and then Nortel.


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Cable modem

LANcity was an early pioneer in cable modems, developing a proprietary system that was widely deployed in the U.S. LANcity, which was led by the Iranian-American engineer Rouzbeh Yassini, was then acquired by Nortel, which eventually spun the cable modem business off as ARRIS.

Class 4 telephone switch

The Nortel SP1 4-Wire was an early electronic switch used as a Class 4 switch.

Digital Private Network Signalling System

DPNSS was an active (and successful) collaboration between PBX manufacturers and BT which started relatively slowly (BT & Plessey) but quickly snowballed with MITEL, GEC, Ericsson, Philips and eventually Nortel all joining to create a powerful and feature rich protocol.

Frank Carlucci

He also has business interests in the following companies: General Dynamics, Westinghouse, Ashland Oil, Neurogen, CB Commercial Real Estate, Nortel, BDM International, Quaker Oats, and Kaman.

Helith

In time, the members of "Helith" released several security advisories affecting even the most secure OpenSource Operating System OpenBSD, PF firewall, OpenSSH, NetBSD and vendors like Netgear or Nortel.

Kathleen Peterson

Kathleen later achieved executive positions at Baltimore Air-Coil-Pritchard, Merck, and Nortel Networks, and at Nortel achieved the position of director of information services.

Nortel business phones

Nortel no longer makes the above listed business phones and are now made by Aastra Technologies Limited of Concord, Ontario since 2001.


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