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Stephen Tippet and Martin Lee have worked at the Teron Road lab for years, running product quality tests on everything from telecom equipment to consumer goods. PHOTO BY MARK HOLLERON
Tech talent powers Kanata F North testing lab through ownership changes
10 KANATA NETWORKER FALL 2019
By Lisa Thibodeau
Nortel-built facility enters new markets with TÜV SÜD
or countless companies in Kanata North and around the world, one of the first steps to bringing high-tech products to market – everything from telecommunications gear to aerospace components – has long been a testing lab on Teron Road. The exterior signage, as well as the facility operator, has changed several times over the past two decades. But there’s been a constant during that
same time period: A core group of skilled technicians who have been with the testing lab since its early days and helped it evolve and remain a worldclass facility. “We support each other,” says test technician Martin Lee. “The people are very important in making this business operate – it’s not just a bunch of machines that get the work done.” Inside its walls, skilled workers put products developed by other companies
