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    Nortel Networks: How Innovation and Vision Created a Network Giant

     
    From phonograph maker to leader in Internet infrastructure
    2/5/2001
    According to Larry MacDonald, author of Nortel Networks: How Innovation and Vision Created a Network Giant, it is not just coincidence that over its 100-year history, Nortel Networks has continually been "in the right place at the right time." Instead, he says, "It has happened too many times to be happenstance; it would appear to be Nortel's creed." MacDonald, who writes technology columns for Canadian publications such as the Financial Post, Ottawa Citizen, and Investor's Digest, offers an engaging look at the Canadian telecommunications giant. He traces Nortel's evolution from manufacturer of electrical appliances (including telephones, fire alarm boxes, and phonographs) to a leader in creating technology to support Internet infrastructure. Nortel Networks not only tells the fascinating story of the company's ability to reinvent itself in an industry marked by huge technological and market discontinuities, it also presents an informed perspective on the global telecommunications industry over the last century.
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