Nortel Shows Off Apps

40G/100G optical solutions from Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks portfolio that can carry enough high-speed traffic to beat the bandwidth glut that looms because our growing obsession with HD and streaming video (click here to check out how one customer is embracing 40G).

WDM PON based Ethernet Access solutions that deliver more bandwidth right to the end-user's front door, clearing up the first mile bottleneck and supporting the delivery of services like IPTV and video-conferencing (click here to check out how Nortel shows off this technology on the tradeshow circuit).

Healthcare solutions that combine location and presence information with telecom to improve patient care and make hospitals and clinicians more efficient (click here to see a video demo).

Web 2.0 solutions such as web.alive that allow people to collaborate and conduct business in a 3D audio-visual virtual world (for more on web.alive check out this interview with chief architect, Arn Hyndman).

Next Generation Video/IPTV solutions that bring interactivity to watching television. Check out some examples of Nortel's IPTV capabilities: blended communications demo, "video to go" demo. Emerging Technologies New and emerging technologies born out of Nortel's open innovation laboratory are also on display:

Rendezvous application that uses the network to find the person you need to speak to and connect you when it's convenient for both, so nobody wastes time playing phone tag.

Video Social Network capabilities that allow you to build your TV playlist online, share your preferences with friends or get their picks on what to watch, then have it transfer directly to your set-top box.

Web services such as Delivery Alert, an application that tracks deliveries online and sends an alert when they are almost at your door (sounds better than the usual "we'll be there between 9 and 5" timeframe right?). These are based on Nortel's Agile Communications Environment which uses Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology to allow operators to easily and quickly deploy new applications.