Editing Nortel (section)

=== Global worksites, partners, and customers ===
[[File:Namco Nortel USA.jpg|thumb|Former campus in 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.