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== Corporate information ==

=== Headquarters ===
[[File:Nortel - Carling Campus (3443785027).jpg|thumb|Nortel's former Carling Campus at 60 Moodie Drive in [[Ottawa]], Ontario (now known as [[NDHQ Carling]])]]
During Nortel's dissolution, its head office was relocated to 5945 Airport Road in [[Mississauga]], Ontario.<ref name="NortelCanadaOffices">{{cite web
 |author       = Nortel Networks Corporation
 |title        = Nortel in Canada&nbsp;– Local Offices
 |publisher    = Nortel Networks Corporation
 |year         = 2009
 |url          = http://www.nortel.com/corporate/global/namerica/canada/offices.html
 |access-date  = December 10, 2009
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20020703022408/http://www.nortel.com/corporate/global/namerica/canada/offices.html
 |archive-date = July 3, 2002
}}</ref> Previous locations of its headquarters included 60 Moodie Drive in [[Ottawa]], Ontario (now [[NDHQ Carling]]), 8200 Dixie Road<ref>{{cite web |title=Nortel Brampton Headquarters |url=https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/nortel-plant-at-8200-dixie-rd-in-brampton-news-photo/165274997 |website=Gettyimages.ca |publisher=Gettyimages |access-date=7 December 2022 |date=2010-01-01 |archive-date=December 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207040142/https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/nortel-plant-at-8200-dixie-rd-in-brampton-news-photo/165274997 |url-status=live }}</ref> in [[Brampton]], Ontario (sold to [[Rogers Communications]] in 2006 and now known as [[Rogers Park, Brampton]]) and 195 The West Mall in [[Toronto]], Ontario (subsequently used by [[SNC-Lavalin]]).<ref name="WestMall">{{cite press release
 |title        = Nortel Selects Toronto Location for New Global Headquarters
 |publisher    = Nortel Networks
 |date         = December 20, 2005
 |url          = http://www2.nortel.com/go/news_detail.jsp?cat_id=-8055&oid=100192603&locale=en-US
 |access-date  = September 12, 2006
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20060104210854/http://www2.nortel.com/go/news_detail.jsp?cat_id=-8055&oid=100192603&locale=en-US
 |archive-date = January 4, 2006
}}</ref>

=== Global worksites, partners, and customers ===
[[File:Namco Nortel USA.jpg|thumb|Former research building in [[Santa Clara, California|Santa Clara]], California]]
Nortel expanded into the U.S. in 1971. The company eventually had employees in over 100 locations in the U.S. with [[Research and development|R&D]], [[software engineering]], and sales centres in many states including [[California]], [[Florida]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Illinois]], [[Maryland]], [[Massachusetts]], [[North Carolina]], [[Texas]], and [[Virginia]]. Nortel's full-service R&D centres were located in [[Ottawa]] (its [[Carling Campus|R&D headquarters]]), Beijing, and [[Guangzhou]].<ref name="Nortel-RandDLocations">{{cite web
 |author       = Nortel Networks
 |title        = Nortel's Major Research & Development Locations
 |year         = 2008
 |url          = http://www.nortel.com/corporate/technology_new/r_and_d_locations.html
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070505053450/http://www.nortel.com/corporate/technology_new/r_and_d_locations.html
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-date = May 5, 2007
 |access-date  = September 4, 2008
}}</ref> In Canada, Nortel also had R&D sites in Montreal, [[Belleville, Ontario|Belleville]], and [[Calgary]]. In the United States, Nortel's major R&D sites were in [[Research Triangle Park]] (North Carolina), [[Richardson, Texas|Richardson]] (Texas), [[Billerica, Massachusetts|Billerica]] (Massachusetts), and [[Santa Clara, California|Santa Clara]].

Nortel had a significant presence in Europe, Middle East, Africa, the [[Caribbean]], and [[Latin America]]. Nortel delivered network infrastructure and communication services to customers across Asia in (mainland) China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey (Nortel owned 53.17% of [[Netaş Telekomünikasyon|Nortel Netaş]], originally established as a joint venture with Turkish [[PTT (Turkey)|PTT]] in 1967).<ref>{{cite web
 |author       = Nortel Networks
 |title        = Nortel Netaş
 |year         = 2007
 |url          = http://www.nortel.com/corporate/global/emea/turkey/about_en.html
 |access-date  = August 8, 2007
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070903172122/http://www.nortel.com/corporate/global/emea/turkey/about_en.html
 |archive-date = September 3, 2007
}}</ref>
In addition, the company had three joint ventures in the People's Republic of China, including Guangdong Nortel Telecommunications Equipment (GDNT), which operated Nortel's full service R&D centres in China.

=== Business structure ===

At the start of 2010, based on membership in Nortel's benefit plan, there were 1,637 employees working for Nortel Networks and 982 working for Nortel Technology in Canada.<ref name="MonitorReport-2010-02-23">{{cite web
 |author       = Ernst & Young
 |title        = Supplement to the Thirty-Ninth Report of the Monitor
 |date         = February 23, 2010
 |url          = http://documentcentre.eycan.com/eycm_library/Project%20Copperhead/English/Monitor%27s%20Reports/SupplementtoThirty-NinthRedatedFeb232010.pdf
 |page         = 28
 |access-date  = February 25, 2010
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110128164241/http://documentcentre.eycan.com/eycm_library/Project%20Copperhead/English/Monitor%27s%20Reports/SupplementtoThirty-NinthRedatedFeb232010.pdf
 |archive-date = January 28, 2011
 |url-status   = dead
 }}</ref>
In February 2008, Nortel employed approximately 32,550 people worldwide, including 6,800 employees in Canada and 11,900 in the United States.<ref name="CBC-200802-jobcuts"/> Nortel operations were divided into the following segments:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nortel.com/corporate/investor/reports/collateral/nnc_10q3_2006.pdf|title=Former Nortel exec seeks $1B protection from lawsuits|author=Nortel Networks|date=September 30, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061122164426/http://www.nortel.com/corporate/investor/reports/collateral/nnc_10q3_2006.pdf|archive-date=November 22, 2006|url-status=dead|access-date=November 12, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |author       = Nortel Networks
 |title        = United States SEC filing, 2007 First Quarter Form 10-Q
 |date         = March 31, 2007
 |url          = http://www.nortel.com/corporate/investor/reports/collateral/nnc_10q_q107.pdf
 |access-date  = June 26, 2007
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070628112539/http://www.nortel.com/corporate/investor/reports/collateral/nnc_10q_q107.pdf
 |archive-date = June 28, 2007
}}
</ref>
* '''Carrier Networks (CN)''': Mobility networking solutions, including [[CDMA]], [[Global System for Mobile Communications|GSM]], and [[UMTS]], and carrier networking solutions, both circuit and packet based.
* '''Enterprise Solutions (ES)''': Enterprise networking solutions, including circuit and packet based voice, data, security, multimedia messaging and conferencing, and call centres.
* '''Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN)''': Optical and metropolitan area networking solutions, for carrier and enterprise customers.
* '''Global Services (GS)''': Services in four areas: network implementation, network support, network management, and network applications (including web services).

=== Corporate governance ===

Nortel's board of directors resigned and the board disbanded effective October 3, 2012. All remaining executive officers also resigned effective this date. As part of the wind-down process, a court order was issued providing Ernst & Young Inc., the court-appointed monitor in Nortel's creditor protection proceedings, the ability to exercise any powers which may be properly exercised by a board of directors of Nortel.<ref name="NortelBoardResigns">{{cite web
 |author       = Nortel Networks
 |title        = Nortel Announces Expanded Powers of Monitor under CCAA; Boards of Directors and Executive Officers Resign
 |url          = http://www.nortel-canada.com/2012/10/nortel-announces-expanded-powers-of-monitor-under-ccaa-boards-of-directors-and-executive-officers-resign/
 |access-date  = October 22, 2012
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20121018065028/http://www.nortel-canada.com/2012/10/nortel-announces-expanded-powers-of-monitor-under-ccaa-boards-of-directors-and-executive-officers-resign/
 |archive-date = October 18, 2012
 |url-status   = dead
 }}</ref>

==== Former members of the board of directors ====
{{Further|List of Nortel people}}

<ref name="NortelBoard">{{cite web
 |author       = Nortel Networks
 |title        = Board of Directors
 |url          = http://www.nortel.com/corporate/exec/board.html
 |access-date  = October 23, 2006
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20060412171658/http://www.nortel.com/corporate/exec/board.html
 |archive-date = April 12, 2006
}}</ref>
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* [[Jalynn Bennett|Jalynn H. Bennett]], CM
* Dr. Manfred Bischoff
* [[James Blanchard]]
* Robert Ellis Brown
* [[Frank C. Carlucci]], former chairman of the board
* [[John Cleghorn]]
* [[Frank Dunn]]
* [[Yves Fortier (lawyer)|Yves Fortier]]
* Hon. James B. Hunt Jr.
* Robert Alexander Ingram<ref>{{cite news|title=Investors Are Taking Long, Hard Look at Nortel's Board|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/business/investors-are-taking-long-hard-look-at-nortel-s-board.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=May 13, 2004|first1=Ken|last1=Belson|first2=Bernard|last2=Simon|access-date=February 19, 2017|archive-date=May 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523091720/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/business/investors-are-taking-long-hard-look-at-nortel-s-board.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Kristina M. Johnson]]
* [[John Alan MacNaughton]]
* Hon. [[John Manley|John P. Manley]]
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* [[Richard D. McCormick|Richard David McCormick]]
* [[Claude Mongeau]]
* [[William Owens (Admiral)]]
* Harry Jonathan Pearce, former chairman of the board
* David Richardson, former chairperson
* [[John Roth (businessman)|John Andrew Roth]]
* [[Guylaine Saucier]]
* Sherwood Smith
* John D. Watson
* [[Lynton Wilson|Lynton "Red" Wilson]], former chairman of the board
* [[Mike Zafirovski]], former president and CEO
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