Nortel: Keeping the Grass Green on All Sides!

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, secure and protect the world's most critical information, and ensure the sustainability of our natural resources. Nortel is supporting both service providers and enterprises as they confront today's era of Hyperconnectivity-a world in which everything that can be connected will be connected. Companies rely on Nortel for solutions that make it simple for them to transform the challenges of hyperconnectivity into communication's opportunities.

This is accomplished through innovative services and products that encompass end-to-end voice, data, multimedia and unified communications across enterprise, wireline and wireless networks!

Nortel: Seeding the World for a Greener Tomorrow

Nortel has demonstrated that sound environmental management can result in financial benefits to the business and added value to both customers and other stakeholders.

The very nature of our business helps reduce adverse environmental impacts. The multimedia networks and applications we create and manage unite users across distances, playing a role in creating a "Greener" environment. Just because our logo is Blue doesn't mean our heart isn't Green!

Nortel's Multimedia Telepresence Services get to the core of Nortel's focus on environmental soundness through significantly reduced employee travel. By striving for both economic and environmental efficiencies, Nortel and its customers create successful businesses while proving themselves responsible members of the community.

Nortel's Multimedia Telepresence Services combine equipment, network and services, creating a complete, immersive experience you have to see to believe. With Nortel Telepresence, you'll be right in the middle of the action, interacting with colleagues, partners and customers who are-in reality-located in various cities, countries or even on different continents. This is nothing like videoconferencing of the 20th century...it's Telepresence for the 21st century!

By seeding the planet today, we're doing our part to ensure each corner of the globe is greener tomorrow.

Nortel Multimedia Telepresence: Keeping the Planet Green with End-to-End Services

With Nortel's concierge-level services, pro-active quality management, and true end-to-end support, you'll achieve interpersonal interactions without ever leaving your office. You'll eliminate long airport waits and costly travel expenses, while powering your business forward and contributing to a healthier environment.

In fact, when it comes to Telepresence, end-to-end multimedia services are critical for ensuring the fully-immersive, real-to-life experience this technology delivers. From initial deployment to ongoing monitoring, these services eliminate concerns so you can concentrate on the "beyond words" benefits of this real-to-life experience.

Our comprehensive multimedia services decrease your deployment times, enabling you-and the environment-to quickly and seamlessly realize the full benefits of Telepresence.

But the benefits of multimedia services don't end with deployment!

Nortel has Multimedia Network Operations Centers (MNOCs) located strategically throughout the world, ensuring always-available access to our dedicated service professionals. Through our 7x24x365 support, the Nortel team remotely monitors your Telepresence system, addressing issues before they arise. Proactive monitoring improves system performance and availability. Issues are handled remotely and unobtrusively.

After all, flying folks out to fix problems wouldn't be keeping the grass greener, would it?

Since Nortel's MNOCs are designed to serve multiple customers simultaneously, network management equipment and the associated power consumption are reduced. In fact, with managed services for telepresence, the only thing that's increased is the positive impact on our environment!

Environmental Practices Grown on Fertile Soil

In addition to our Multimedia Telepresence Services, Nortel's overarching business practices also focus on creating a greener tomorrow:

For the third consecutive year, Nortel has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (DJSI), an investment index that benchmarks North America's corporate leaders in sustainable development. The annual review is based on a thorough analysis of corporate, economic, environmental and social performance, assessing issues such as governance, risk management, branding, climate change, supply chain standards and labor practices.

In 2007, Nortel joined the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), which aims to further sustainable development in the ICT sector. GeSI fosters global and open cooperation, informs the public of its members' voluntary actions to improve their sustainability performance, and promotes technologies that foster sustainable development.

Also last year, the company was recognized with several awards. Maclean's magazine named Nortel as one of Canada's Top ten Socially Responsible companies in the Technology and Media sector. Nortel additionally received the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility, distinguishing the company as one of the top practitioners of workplace flexibility in Richardson, Texas.

Nortel, with our Multimedia Telepresence Services and our emphasis on sustainability leadership, is a proud sponsor of Kyoto Planet. As we continue pursuing our mission of environmental responsibility, setting new goals and meeting new challenges through innovation and determination, Nortel is delighted to be teaming with an organization that values and promotes the benefits of a greener world.

Call 1-800 4 NORTELand learn how Nortel can help keep your grass greener for today and into the future.