Nortel's PEC Paying Off Already!
Hey, spending nearly half a billion dollars on mid-tier systems integrator wasn't such a bad idea after all. Nortel PEC Solutions (formerly PEC Solutions Inc. before it was bought by Nortel for US$448-million) has signed to a deal with NASA's Mission Command and Telemetry Network to upgrade its networks so critical data can be shared between the Space Shuttle Discovery, the International Space Station, and NASA operations centers. Almost as important, Nortel PEC will install a “mobility solution” - how come they just don't say wireless network? - at the Kennedy Space Center so journalists attending launches can secure access the Web while moving throughout the six-acre site. Now if Nortel would only provide wireless Web access during tomorrow's AGM, that would be a very good thing.
