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. • Application switch Nortel Application Switches enable application optimization, delivery, and high availability through the use of sophisticated application/device load balancing, intelligent traffic management, application-layer security, security acceleration, and bandwidth management.