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Innovation for the Future … Today
Kelly Kanellakis
Leader, Strategic Planning and High Performance Networking
February 21, 2008
BUSINESS MADE SIMPLE
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A New Era
Enterprise
Carrier
Consumer
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• Global, mobile workforce
• Global, online customer base
• Interaction, not information – without the wait!
• Open Networks
• More devices – 3rd party devices
• Focus on content to drive new revenue
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Mobile, more connected
Ubiquitous
Impatient – more content, less wait!
Drive innovation
Hyperconnectivity
Hyperconnectivity
Enterprise
Carrier
Anything that SHOULD be
connected and would benefit
from being connected, WILL be
connected –
People to People –
Machine to Machine
People to Machine
Consumer
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Hyperconnectivity
Hyperconnectivity
True
Broadband
Enterprise
Carrier
Consumer
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Anything that SHOULD be
connected and would benefit
from being connected, WILL be
connected
Communications
Enabled
Applications
… Drives Technology Investments
Hyperconnectivity
4G
True
Broadband
Enterprise
PBT
40Gig
Carrier
Consumer
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Anything that SHOULD be
connected and would benefit
from being connected, WILL be
connected
Communications
Enabled
Applications
Unified
Communications
Applications
Services
To Deliver A Revolutionary
User Experience
Hyperconnectivity
Enterprise
A Revolutionary
User Experience!
Carrier
Consumer
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Anything that SHOULD be
connected and would benefit
from being connected, WILL be
connected
Nortel Differentiation
Application
Wireless
Enterprise
Carrier
Wireline
Infrastructure
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Nortel Advanced Research Labs
Mission
• Primary and product research into technology areas to advance
communications that change the way that people live, work and
play
Who We Are
• CTO Research - group of 200 people dedicated to advanced
research and development for Nortel
• Education and expertise across a broad range of technologies and
disciplines
• Currently doing research into 3 major areas, with multiple projects in
each area
Where we are
• Ottawa, Billerica (Boston), Harlow, Richardson, RTP (Raleigh),
Beijing, Toronto, Santa Clara,
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The Importance of Interaction
External
Research
Customer
Incubation
Advanced
Research
Labs
Open
Innovation
Lab
Business
Units
Common
Engineering
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Advanced Technology Program Focus
Revolutionary User Experience
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End-Customer Centered Innovations to revolutionize
the way we work, collaborate, and communicate in
the new hyperconnected world, leveraging Nortel’s
ATOM.
High Performance
Networking
• Research in the
infrastructure and
performance of
networks to address
the demands of next
generation enduser applications
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Wireless
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To create true
broadband wireless
connectivity for future
carrier and enterprise
spaces
To create paradigmchanging wireless
technology enablers
such as Multi-hop
Relay, Gigabit RAN and
Unwired Enterprise
Rev U - Revolutionary User Experience
Sound
• Leverage our existing knowledge
and IPR in audio to drive new
end user focused solutions
Mobile HF Interface
•3D Audio
•Voice controls
•Whisper
Situation awareness
Audio Scanning
Emotion Detection
3D Displays
Vision
• Take advantage of low cost video
equipment and 3D interfaces to
add new dimensions to the user
experience
Information
• Leverage data acquired from
context applications and real-time
input from vision and sound to
facilitate interactions
Everyone Everywhere
•Multi-user Multi-touch
•3D Visualization
•Local and remote
Facial Expressions
Emotion Detection
Perceptive
Communication
•Auto-connect / share
•Social Aware
Prototype
Situation awareness
Topic Extraction
Enterprise Ads
Research
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Advanced Research Highlights –
High Performance Networking
Network Knowledge
Plane
 Proactive Application
Performance
Management
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Wireless backhaul
Optimization
Quality of
Experience –
 Usability
 Latency
 Availability
 Security
(capacity/control knobs)
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Ethernet
synchronization
Wireless
Applications
Carrier
Automation of
Infrastructure
management &
operation
•Design for
performability
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure as a
Service
 Service Assurance
 SLA Monitoring
 DARPA Research
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Enterprise
Wireline
Video Service
Assurance
 Time Distribution
over Ethernet
 Carrier Ethernet
Protocols (PLSB)
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Advanced Research Highlights –
Wireless and Mobility
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OFDM-MIMO
Multihop Relaying
GREEN cell site
Integrated Antenna/
Remote Radio
• GigaBit RAN
Wireless
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Carrier
RF coverage, capacity
4G Backhaul
High Performance VoIP
Femtocell
WiMAX Evolution
 LTE Evolution
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Unwired Enterprise
 RF Coverage,
Capacity, Security
 Enhanced 802.11n
 mm-Wave System
Enterprise  GiFi and .11HVT
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Applications
Infrastructure
Wireline
External Research Program
• 45 Projects with 20 Leading
Universities
• Leveraged investment 50:1
• Access to average 30 Invention
disclosures / patents annually
• 750+ senior research and post
grads engaged globally
• R&D projects in many areas,
including open source, end-to-end
security, seamless roaming,
OFDM/MIMO, NGN optical, sensor
networking, living the future…
“Our investments in technology innovation initiatives with more than 20 major
universities around the world help insure we’re solidly positioned to meet our
customer’s needs not only today but into the future as well.” (Mike Z)
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Skills Competencies for the Future
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Solutions
OAM
• Network engineering
• Solutions design
• Operations
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End-User Context
Advanced Networking
Protocols
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• H248, H323,
SS7, V5.2, PRI,
ISUP, SIP, GIP
Identity
Location
Presence
Mobility
Policy
Network mgt
Fault configuration
Accounting, billing
Provisioning
Routing
L4-7
Ethernet
MPLS
Network Security
S/W Platforms
H/W Platforms
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• Digital design
• Platform based
• Packaging
• Mechanical
Carrier grade
Call processing
System software
Platform based
End-User Apps
& Software
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Multimedia apps
Video
Web 2.0
Web Services
High Performance
Hardware
• Wireless access
• Optical access
• ASICs/FPGAs
Creating the Future Today!
Application
Wireless
Enterprise
Services
A Revolutionary
User Experience!
Carrier
Wireline
Infrastructure
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