Nortel is maintaining its metro stance despite the fact that some analysts question the ongoing viability of storage service providers (SSPs) as carriers of SAN services. Pagani says Nortel has a large percentage of vertical market and financial customers that buy SAN solutions directly from vendors.
Pagani, 39, is a Nortel veteran, having joined the company on his graduation from university in 1985. His jobs have included VP of carrier data networking and most recently general manager of the Multiservice WAN business (including the Passport switches).
Paganis ascendance to the top Optical Metro spot is part of the latest executive shuffle at Nortel, led by the appointment of Greg Mumford to the post of CTO. Mumford, formerly president of long-haul networking at Nortel, is succeeded in that post by Brian McFadden, who's moving over from the presidency of the Metropolitan Optical division.
Marco Pagani
Pagani reports to Frank Plastina, who remains president of Metropolitan and Enterprise Networks. Nortels third strategic product group, Wireless, is headed by Pascal Debon. McFadden, Plastina, and Debon, like Mumford, report to CEO Frank Dunn.
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