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Nortel/Friday Institute Overview

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“The relationship that Nortel has with the Friday Institute serves as a model demonstrating the power of partnership between business and higher education to deliver cutting edge resources to students of all ages anywhere,” said Bill Donovan, senior vice president, Nortel. “The goal of this project is to enable students in rural areas to take advantage of high-quality learning opportunities as if they were physically located at the Friday Institute, breaking through the boundaries of geography and access.”

Overview of collaboration:

Nortel provides technology that is designed to enable real-time, multi-media collaboration services that seamlessly combine voice, data and video communications at the Friday Institute. The services will be extended to schools through the development of the Friday Institute’s technology platform to connect partner schools throughout North Carolina.

Multimedia services include on-demand audio and video conferencing, IP telephony, whiteboard and file exchange, Instant Messaging, and personalized call management and routing. The services can be leveraged to address key education challenges, enhancing the learning experience for students, delivering new affordable communications capabilities to administrators and improving collaboration across the entire learning community — with students, teachers, parents and school administrators.

Nortel provides a secure Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications solution as the primary telephone system at the Friday Institute. The Friday Institute is the first building at N.C. State University to have VoIP as its primary voice telephone system.

In addition, Nortel and the Friday Institute are collaborating with the N.C. State University Department of Computer Science to develop an external wireless mesh network on Centennial Campus. Initially, the wireless “outdoor” network will be used as a test bed. Eventually, students and faculty will be able to access the network campus-wide for computing and voice communications.

“Nortel is integrally involved in how education is evolving. Every single one of the top ten universities in North America relies on Nortel, serving more than 500,000 students. In addition, nine of ten of the largest U.S. public school districts run on Nortel, serving more than 3.5 million students,” Donovan continued. “Nortel solutions improve the way education and research organizations use networking resources to communicate, conduct research, teach students and provide mobile collaborative multimedia technologies both on and off campus.”

About Nortel

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world's most critical information. Our next-generation technologies, for both service providers and enterprises, span access and core networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications, and help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people with information. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.