TORONTO -- Bell Canada (NYSE:BCE) (TSE:BCE.) and Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT) (TSE:NT.) today announced plans to conduct the first North American trial of Nortel Networks Interactive Multimedia Server, a new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) product designed to deliver new, advanced multimedia services. Beginning this month, Bell will trial the product with its largest enterprise Centrex customers, enabling them to increase employee collaboration and improve productivity. Nortel Networks Interactive Multimedia Server is designed to deliver instant video calling and other new telephone, Internet and video services using "off-the-shelf" computer hardware. It can be deployed in existing terrestrial or wireless networks, or in next generation packet voice networks. "People have grown accustomed to the convenience provided by services like caller ID and voice mail delivered over traditional telephone networks," said Sue Spradley, president, Carrier Voice over IP, Nortel Networks. "Now as we move to more cost-effective 'packet' networks, Nortel Networks Interactive Multimedia Server will deliver new, practical services that will fundamentally improve the way we communicate."Nortel Networks Corp. Bell Canada