Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa Guests Win Big With Nortel Convergence Solutions and Sprint's New Local Company

Las Vegas, Nevada (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Indulges Guests With Premium, On-Demand Fine Dining, Gaming and
Entertainment Services

Station Casinos, Inc., one of the leading gaming corporations in
the U.S., is delivering the ultimate in-room communications
experience for guests at its new Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa
through converged IP solutions from Nortel(x) (NYSE: NT; TSX: NT)
and its channel partner Sprint. Guests of the newly opened, billion
dollar resort in Las Vegas have access to personalized, on-demand
services using colour touch screens of Nortel IP phones located in
each room. Nortel converged communications solutions deliver
advanced IP telephony and multimedia applications to in-room Nortel
touch screen phones to let Red Rock guests take full advantage of the
resort's fine dining, gaming and entertainment services. Guests can
easily make dinner reservations at many of the resort's nine
restaurants, schedule a massage at the 25,000 square-feet Spa at Red
Rock or connect with the hotel's concierge to plan adventure
activities such as rock climbing or white water rafting - all
through interactive in-room communications using Nortel IP phones.

"We created an IP network for Red Rock that delivers premium
personalized communication services and allows the resort to expand
its service offerings, improve guest loyalty and ultimately bolster
profitability," said Alex Pierson, general manager, Enterprise and
Small-Medium Business Communication Systems, Nortel. "Sprint's new
local company is very excited to power Red Rock Station with Nortel
equipment," said Sprint's vice president of Business Sales, Richard
Twilley. "With the latest content, interactive features and
programming, guests will be able to experience communications in an
entirely new way." The IP network from Nortel also allows Red Rock
to streamline administrative functions to heighten staff
productivity and deliver the highest levels of guest experience from
check-in through check-out. For example, quick access to room status
information is critical in reducing waiting times for guests on
checking in or for determining whether a room can be sold, if it
needs maintenance or additional cleaning. These efficiencies allow
Red Rock management to allocate staff resources quickly to where they
are needed most.

The new Nortel network also reduces staff operator time by
automating such guest services as wake-up calls or answering routine
questions regarding area attractions, hotel events or airport
shuttles. In addition, the system will provide 18 language options
to accommodate guests from around the world. Station Casinos is also
using Nortel IP solutions in the new 94,000 square-feet of meeting
and convention space located on the Red Rock property and also plans
to use Nortel IP solutions to converge voice and data networks at
its new corporate headquarters. Nortel's voice solutions are
currently being used at 6 Station Casino properties across the
United States, with Red Rock being the first location to deploy
advanced featured IP devices in the room to enhance the guest
experience. This deployment is based on Nortel's highly reliable data
networking technology that provides guests with a superior quality of
experience for voice and multimedia services. The Red Rock deployment
includes Nortel's IP telephony flagship Communication Server 1000 in
conjunction with Nortel's CallPilot for unified messaging and the
color touch screen Nortel IP Phone 2007. The core data network
consists of Nortel's Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 and Nortel Ethernet
Routing Switch 5520, which deliver Power over Ethernet to the edge.
The whole package delivers advanced telephony and messaging services
directly to the guests' rooms.

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capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power
global commerce, and secure and protect the world's most critical
information. Our next-generation technologies, for both service
providers and enterprises, span access and core networks, support
multimedia and business-critical applications, and help eliminate
today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying
networks and connecting people with information. Nortel does business
in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the
Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit
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