Nortel Brings Unified Communications to Life at Unified Communications Expo 2009

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Mar 04 (MARKET WIRE) --
Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(OTCBB: NRTLQ) will showcase the latest in Unified
Communications technology at UC 09(2), including new solutions that can
simplify business operations, reduce operating costs and increase
employee productivity.

Nortel, along with channel partner Intrinsic Technology, will showcase
these UC solutions on March 11 and 12 at stand 210, adjacent to the
Central Telecom UK stand. With Intrinsic, Nortel will exhibit the Latest
UC solutions from it's alliances with Microsoft and IBM, including its
latest examples of OCS and Sametime integration.

Exclusive to UC 09, Nortel will host the only feature area at the event -
Applications Alive! Visitors to the area will be able to see first-hand
how they can streamline their business processes through CEBP
(Communications Enabled Business Processes) using Nortel's open standards
ACE (Agile Communications Environment) platform. The Applications Alive!
area will be split into four zones: one for customer consultations, two
zones demonstrating healthcare and retail applications, and another zone
showcasing virtual education and collaboration built on Nortel's
Web.Alive platform.

- Health: Nortel will demonstrate how UC applications, using ACE, can
deliver realtime patient information to improve clinical operations and
the overall patient experience.

- Retail: UC applications, using ACE, personalize and simplify purchases
using a demonstration with V-Teen, a virtual teenager.

- Education: a first-hand demonstration of Nortel's virtual university
campus created within Web.Alive, a platform for collaboration, assisted
e-commerce and virtual learning/training applications.

Industry Voices

Nortel UC experts will also deliver keynote speeches and presentations in
the Nortel sponsored Technical Theatre:

Wednesday 11th March

- 12:30 - 13:00 - Keynote: 'Nortel Energy Efficiency.' Simon Wilson,
leader, Communications Solutions, Nortel Europe

- 15:10 - 15:40 - 'Anytime, Anywhere Collaboration - Making Collaboration
Compelling.' John Mann, leader, Unified Communications, Nortel Europe

Thursday 12th March

- 12:30 - 13:00 - 'The Evolution to Unified Communications - The
Collaboration of Business and IT.' Pete Moody, product marketing manager,
Unified Communications, Nortel Europe

- 13:50 - 14:20 - Keynote: 'Unified Communications - Where will it take
my business?' Charlie Wade, vice president, Enterprise Product Marketing,
Nortel Europe

- 10:30 - 11:00 - 'How to Introduce UC into your Contact Centre Without
Losing Your Current Infrastructure Investment.' Steve Kinge, business
development manager, Customer Contact Solutions, Nortel Europe.

About Nortel (in Administration)

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities
that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our
customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider
and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical
applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate
today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying
networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they
need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the
world. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com.
For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.

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Contacts:
Nortel
Jody Prescott
44-1628-434190
Email: jodyp@nortel.com
Website: www.nortel.com

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