May 18 – Nortel Networks opened its global network operations center in Bangalore to manage the networks of its carrier and enterprise customers in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

This is the company’s fifth overseas network operations center. According to Suresh Kumar, Nortel Asia-Pacific vice president for managed service delivery, the company chose not to expand in Gurgaon but set up a network operations center in Bangalore to provide disaster recovery capabilities to its customers.

The new center is designed to cater to the needs of 300 employees.