(Federl & Provencial Election Riding Ottawa-West Nepean, River Ward in the City of Ottawa)

- the world best fiber optics communication equipment Labs in Y2K , which shipped $10 billions USD OC192 products in that fiscal year.

Source (http://www.bink.org/Portfolio/Nortel1.htm)

Skyline, the company's second largest lab after Carling, which designs and develops fiber-optic and radio transmission products, wireless products, and DMS research and development. The eight-building complex -- divided into Skyline West and Skyline East -- is six miles (10 kilometers) from the Carling complex. The Campus hosted more than 5,000 optics professionals in year 2001 when Nortel counts on 1/3rd of total TSX

Skyline West consists of Tower 5, Tower 7, and Skylink, which links the two towers and houses labs, two captive offices, and employee services. The major programs include development of:

Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) fiber-optic transmission products, including the S/DMS TransportNode OC-12 and OC-48 products which were launched in 1990, as well as the next-generation OC-3 Express and OC-192 platforms. Skyline West is headquarters for SONET optical product development, and draws upon Nortel facilities in Monkstown, Northern Ireland and Harlow, England, to ensure the global reach of next-generation products; SONET radio; optical amplifier-based products, which are an integral part of long-distance fiber optics networks; all OAM software for network management of the S/DMS product line, including the S/DMS Network Manager platform; and wireless products, including American Cellular hardware, AMPS/TDMA and CDMA software and system development for various basestation platforms, and several Proximity terminals. Other significant developments primed by the Radio group in Skyline West include PCS 1900, Micro-BTS, PCS 1900/GSM fixed access units, Omnipoint systems, and broadband radio. The Radio group is also developing wireless technologies that will support the goals of the Wireless Networks line of business (LOB) and other Nortel LOBs two to five years from now.
    Skyline West is equipped with captive offices and labs to support a full range of development and product support activities. For instance, approximately 20,000 square feet of labs and captive offices, located in Tower 5 and Skylink, support the S/DMS TransportNode development program.
At Skyline East, the focus is on the DMS Generic Services Framework (GSF) program -- the new call-processing software for DMS products -- as well as the Global DMS-100 and DMS-300 products.

Skyline East consists of towers 1 through 4. Towers 1 and 2 house the following groups: Supernode Data Manager (SDM) Platform development, Global DMS-300, Global Enterprise Systems (GES), Network Application Vehicle (NAV), and Broadband Network Carrier. The Public Carrier Network group is located in towers 1, 2, 3, and 4. In addition, Stentor (the umbrella organization representing Canada's nine major telephone companies) maintains offices on the first floor of Tower 1.

Global 100 Services resides in towers 3 and 4. Tower 3 houses Global 100 executive and support, the Global100 Asian Pacific CALA, GISDN, GSF ISDL, GLINES, and GSSP/AIN groups, plus some TransportNode group employees. Tower 4 contains a captive office, as well as the ICP (Independent Certification Project), Global 100 Services, GSF DRU (Development Release Unit), and Architecture groups.

 The Fate of Optical Valley - Where Nortel's Major Assets Go?

Apple, Microsoft, Sony and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion are part of a winning consortium of six companies (Rockstar), which have bought a valuable tranche of patents from the bankrupt Nortel Networks patent portfolio for $4.5bn (£2.8bn), in a hotly contested auction that saw Google and Intel lose out. (news in July 2011)

Rockstar originally bought around 6,000 patents from the Nortel bankruptcy sale for $4.5 billion. About 2,000 of those patents were distributed among various consortium members and the rest (roughly 4,000 of the patents) sold RPX for $900 in Dec. 2014. RPX is contributing about $35 million towards the deal. The remainder of the costs are being covered by a syndicate of more than 30 companies, including Cisco and Google.

 Businesses (Total about 2.9 billion)

• July 2009: Ericsson purchases Nortel's CDMA and LTE assets for $1.13 billion in an auction.
• July 20, 2009: Avaya wins an auction for Nortel's Enterprise Solutions business, including Nortel's stake in Nortel Government Solutions and DiamondWare, for $900 million,after having placed a stalking horse bid of $475 million.
• November 2009: Nortel sells its MEN (Metro Ethernet Networks) unit to Ciena Corporation for US$530 million in cash and US$239 million in convertible notes.
• November 2009: Nortel sells its GSM business at auction to Ericsson and Kapsch for US$103 million.

The Fate of Optical Valley - Restarting Our Startups from Basements?

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