Nortel

Nortel Networks Corporation, Nortel or short, is a Canadian company that operates as an equipment for telecommunications companies. Since 2005, the company mentions only briefly Nortel, the official company name in Canada has not changed, in Germany the company as Nortel GmbH is known.

Since January 2009, Nortel is in bankruptcy proceedings. In June 2009, Nortel announced that it will sell all divisions and dissolve the company.

History

The company was founded in 1895 by Alexander Graham Bell in Brantford, Ontario as The Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company Limited. Herein stored the Bell Telephone Company of Canada from their production of telephones, fire alarms and emergency call boxes for police and firefighters. In 1900, the young company began with the production of crank- operated Grammofonen that were used to play records ( instead of the standard rolls ). 1913, the company's headquarters and main production center of Nortel was completed in Montreal. In 1914, the merger with Imperial Cable was the company Northern Electric, which was owned by Bell Canada and the U.S. company Western Electric. At the end of World War Northern Electric was the leading distributor of Western Electric's electrical systems.

1922 Northern Electric began production of radios. In 1928 it produced for a theater in Montreal, the technology for the first sound film theater in the British Empire. AT & T / Western Electric in 1949 was forced to sell his shares in the company due to an antitrust lawsuit against Bell Canada. After the dissolution of this compound Nortel began developing its own products. In 1953, the first TV was produced. For the manufacture of Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was applied to a cathode ray tube resorted.

In 1966 the development department of the company, the Bell Northern Research ( BNR ), to explore the applications of fiber optic cable. This led in 1969 to work on the digitization of the telephone communication.

In 1976 the company name changed to Northern Telecom Limited. At this time, Nortel sought to become the leader in the field of digital communication.

In 1995, to mark the 100th anniversary statute-barred renamed Nortel.

In 1998, the name changed to Nortel Networks, Bay Networks after the company had been bought. The objective of the other company strategies is towards the Internet and its infrastructure: communication, multi-protocol services and global ( private ) networks. Another mainstay is the mobile environment with infrastructure technology for GSM and UMTS.

2000 succeeded alleged Chinese hackers a break with permanent access to the innermost secrets of Nortel's and began secretly to copy technical and business documents.

2004 Nortel tried after a series of financial scandals under a new leadership an overall impression of change. The corporate personality already used 1995 to 1998, was reactivated: Nortel Networks Nortel calls itself again and again from www.nortelnetworks.com was www.nortel.com. In the course of discovered irregularities in the accounting Nortel had gains that were reported for 2003, assign the years 2001 and 2002. Accordingly, earnings in 2003 and the losses of 2001 and 2002 reduced.

On 14 January 2009, Nortel sought insolvency proceedings under the Canadian Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. Some foreign subsidiaries applied for appropriate procedures in their respective countries. The company was struggling in the wake of the financial crisis starting in 2007 with a dramatic drop in orders of the telephone companies. Since then, different lines of business are for sale. In July 2009, the mobile division for € 794m ($ 1.13 billion ) to Ericsson was sold last Avaya bought in September 2009, the enterprise telephony business for 900 million U.S. dollars.

March 31, 2010 parts of the Carrier Networks Division of Nortel were sold to the Kapsch CarrierCom AG.

July 1, 2011 it was announced that about 6,000 Nortel patents in the value of the equivalent of € 3.1 billion ($ 4.5 billion ) were sold to a consortium of Apple, Ericsson, EMC, RIM, Microsoft and Sony.

In 2012 it was announced that Nortel was already spied by suspected Chinese hackers for many years.

Nortel in Germany

Nortel was initially represented in Germany with two companies. The Nortel GmbH, the German subsidiary of Nortel. The operating business but was mostly handled by the Nortel Networks Germany GmbH & Co KG. This company was the former Nortel DASA, which was founded in 1995 as a joint venture between Nortel and DASA. Main sites of this company were Frankfurt, Friedrichshafen and Munich. The merger of the two companies on 1 July 2007 in Germany there is only the Nortel GmbH, based in Frankfurt.