Nortel Optera LH5000... Design Interpretive works with Nortel Networks' highly successful Optical products group to deliver a product concept in record time for SuperCom 2002. Working directly with the Optera Long Haul development team Design Interpretive managed, designed and executed the creation of a full-scale tradeshow model to be unveiled at the worlds largest telecommunications show and conference, Supercomm 2002. Creating full-scale, product concept models of this type for Nortel allows their design teams to visualize their products as they would appear in production and establishes a goal to achieve in their final mechanical development. Models of this type also force the team to consider the visual clues and markers used in directing users in the proper procedure for servicing and maintaining the myriad of packs and connections that make up a complex optical transport system of this type. In his role as industrial design architect, Vince Somoza while working for Nortel Networks defined the visual language and established a standard for labeling and path-finding that allowed the extensive engineering team to work to a set of specific requirements that were user-centered and focused on human factor issues for the "first three inches" of this product. Vince is also co-inventor of the unique, Mechanically Constrained Connection (MCC) that allows direct pack-to-pack connectivity without the use of patch-cords and shares a patent for this mechanism with key members of the Nortel Networks engineering team.   Roll-over the thumbnails above to view a collection images of the final model presented at Supercomm 2002.

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