Nortel Networks: How Innovation and Vision Created a Network Giant

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Praise for Nortel Networks How Innovations and Vision Created a Network Giant "Nortel rising from Canadian industrial age corporation to a global network powerhouse is a fabulous story of determination and foresight, and new business modal innovation. MacDonald shows why Nortel will remain pre-eminent in the brutally competitive digital economy." -Don Tapscott, Chair, Digital 4Sight, and Author of Paradigm Shift, The Digital Economy, Growing Up Digital, and Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs "Few companies are changing the world today. Nortel is one of them-and has been for generations. This is a human adventure of corporate renewal-about visionary leaders who transform today's success into tomorrow's innovation." - E. F. Peter Newson, Associate Professor, Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario "MacDonald's book fills a critical gap in the history of Canadian telecommunications. His Nortel Networks is a valuable and extremely readable chronicle of the remarkable transformation of a sleepy telephone manufacturer into Canada's most valuable corporation." -Lawrence Surtees, research analyst, IDC Canada Ltd., and former telecommunications reporter. The Globe and Mail Visit Our Companion Website at www.wiley.com/canada/nortelnetworks Copyright......Page 8 Contents......Page 11 Acknovvledgernents......Page 13 A Brief History of Nortel Netvvorks......Page 15 A History of Name Changes for Nortel Networks......Page 26 Key Executives in the History of Nortel Netvvorks......Page 27 Introduction: The Battle to Build the Internet......Page 31 Chapter 1 Good Vibrations: Bell's Telephone......Page 45 Chapter 2 Nortel's Baby Steps......Page 55 Chapter 3 A Triumvirate Wakes a Sleepy Company......Page 69 Chapter 4 Good Beginnings and False Starts......Page 83 Chapter 5 The Switch to Digital......Page 95 Chapter 6 The Dance of the Regulators......Page 115 Chapter 7 Going Global......Page 129 Chapter 8 Full Speed a Stern......Page 153 Chapter 9 Monty and the Python: Fighting the Squeeze......Page 177 Chapter 10 Roth's Wireless Feat......Page 205 Chapter 11 The Vision Thing: Webtone......Page 219 Chapter 12 Turning on a Dime......Page 231 Chapter 13 Trump Card in the Internet Stakes: Fiber Optics......Page 247 Chapter 14 Looking Ahead......Page 267 Endnotes......Page 285 Index......Page 297