Nortel

Predictions for the next few months, Riverbed and Nortel get purchased plus more

Larry Chaffin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:38:04 -0500

Predictions for the next few months, Riverbed and Nortel get purchased plus more

Yes, I said it and this is what I am thinking. Juniper is looking at Nortel as a buy, buy, buy (as Kramer would put it) to compete with Cisco in voice and unified communications. Also they would get the optical unit at Nortel which would just get under the skin of the Cisco people. But there could be another company who might buy Nortel, remember that Nortel does allot of carrier class switching. This could be a great time for AT&T to buy a vendor or even Qwest.

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Nortel?

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:18:36 -0500

Yeah, let's use US Tax dollars to bail out a Canadian company..Genius..

Nortel

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:26:23 -0500

Going down hill fast. Wont be around for to much longer, give it a year

Financial analyst sets Nortel stock price target at $0. Ouch

Jeff Caruso — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:30:42 -0500

Nortel has been second-guessed and criticized and analyzed all week, ever since announcing that it would lay off 1,300 employees and four executives and reorganize into autonomous business units.

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back to the future

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:02:02 -0500

Pradash's comment that "We have a four-year relationship with Microsoft" ignores the fact that Nortel and Microsoft have struggled to find value in their relationship(s) since the mid-90's when an executive named Camp was trashed for developing the first application suite that used the Meridian 1 as a server on the LAN with all call control and data flowing to/from the pbx across the LAN. This architecture ran counter to the bellheaded view that the pbx must be a peer to the LAN and that PCs should communicate directly to the pbx via Nortel-controlled black boxes.

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Nortel vs Cisco at top of the ninth

tonyryb — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:38:08 -0500

The Mets selected Nortel for their new stadium. Play ball.

Nortel Shakeup Prompts Questions

Matthew Nickasch — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:00:02 -0500

Yesterday, November 10th, Nortel announced a 'shakeup of sorts' after disappointing quarterly results, prompting a decentralization and large structure change at the company. These sweeping changes are resounding throughout not only the enterprise telephony industry, but other Nortel influenced markets including Carrier-Grade Systems and Metro Ethernet as well. In addition, the highly-visible John Roese, the present CTO of Nortel will be leaving in January 2009. This decision comes as a response to the company's decision to vertically align and integrate its business structure.

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CTO, 3 other execs 'restructured' out of Nortel

Jeff Caruso — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:59:09 -0500

Nortel had a bad third quarter and announced plans to lay off 1,300 of its workers. Among those leaving are CTO John Roese, Chief Marketing Officer Lauren Flaherty, Global Services President Dietmar Wendt and Executive Vice President Global Sales Bill Nelson.

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Microsoft and Nortel - UC alliance

Alex Lewis — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:30:09 -0500

Mark Evans at All About Nortel asks Did Microsoft Go Wrong in their choice to partner with Nortel as a voice/pbx partner? The short answer, in my opinion, is no. Nortel has been a great partner and helped Microsoft get its foot in the door in the voice world. The relationship was invaluable in gaining credibility and entrance to Nortel's large installed base. You'll notice I'm speaking solely in the past tense, here's why...

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Cisco is the jolly green giant

Cisco Subnet — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:17:25 -0400

Cisco is the greenest of them all, according to a new Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Cisco is ahead of Nortel and HP, which came in second and third place, respectively, in ABI's evaluation of network switching vendors' internal green initiatives as well as the greenness of their switches.

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SMB IP-PBX Markets Alive Again

Matthew Nickasch — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:18:02 -0400

The small and medium business IP-PBX markets are alive once again with new blood being brought in to refresh multiple vendors' existing product lines.

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Nortel has $3.1 billion in cash

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:32:15 -0400

Hi Jim, Don't forget that Nortel has $3.1 billion in cash, $4.5 billion in debt and is expected to burn thru $500M in cash for 3Q08.

Nortel carrier Ethernet up for sale: Here's an interesting potential buyer

Cisco Subnet — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:08:20 -0400

As Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre noted earlier this week, China-based Huawei should step in to buy Nortel's carrier Ethernet and optical assets - especially now it's up for sale. Nortel's MEN business is worth $2 billion and could be a sizeable addition to Huawei's $12.5 billion business. However, Nortel says this is not a "fire sale" and that it is "looking to get the most value as this asset is worth."

As we know, competition is good, and a leaner and more focused Nortel could make it a better alternative to Cisco, while the addition of a $2 billion Metro Ethernet business could help to kick start Huawei's carrier business in North America.

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How Huawei could be a better contender against Cisco

Cisco Subnet — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:46:41 -0400

Huawei should buy Nortel's carrier Ethernet and optical assets to help improve its competiveness against Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, and Nokia Siemens, writes Ray Le Maistre, international news editor at Light Reading. Despite growing steadily each year to become a $12.5 billion business, the China-based company is still far behind its networking rivals, Le Maistre adds. Huawei's acquisition of Nortel's MEN (metro Ethernet networks) business would enable it to break into the North American market; enable the two companies to rekindle their failed access equipment relationship; give Huawei access to Nortel's advanced developments in 40G/100G; and would boost both companies' carrier Ethernet ambitions.

Le Maistre adds:

"This is a move that makes total sense for Huawei. Expect to see the Chinese vendor at least check out the potential for such a deal, which could, of course, run into some regulatory barriers and, of course, some potential competition that won't be keen to see Huawei get its hands on Nortel's MEN."

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Nortel is dead

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:29:05 -0400

old company with old technology.

First Look: Nortel Ramps Up SCS500 Platform

Matthew Nickasch — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:09:21 -0400

Within the last few weeks, the dust is still settling from the announcement of the Nortel-Pingtel deal which generated much attention from end users and analysts alike. As announced in the acquisition deal, the technologies from Pingtel's SIPFoundry suite would evolve into Nortel's Software Communications System 500 (SCS500). Dell has apparently jumped on the Nortel bandwagon, as they have become a hardware platform provider for the SCS500. In the past, Fonality partnered with Dell to provide server hardware for its appliance-like systems. What's a notable difference between the two? Simple hardware comparisons. Dell's hardware implementation of the Nortel SCS500 runs on OptiPlex "desktop-grade" systems, whereas "other" systems utilize server class hardware.

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Nortel claims Cisco customers are paying $6.1 billion in 'Cisco energy tax'

Cisco Subnet — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:07:43 -0400

Nortel, which rarely shies away from poking fun at Cisco has launched an aggressive campaign targeted at Cisco customers and what Nortel describes as the $6.1 billion "Cisco Energy Tax" that customers are paying.

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Convergence Revolutionizes Financial Services

Matthew Nickasch — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:07:04 -0400

The convergence-focused telecommunications industry is always looking to adapt to, and develop, for new markets. Surprisingly, one of the areas that is still adapting to IP telephony and convergence is the financial services market.

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Securing the Line Part 5 - Media Encryption

Matthew Nickasch — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:12:31 -0400

As discussed earlier, VLANs, ACLs, and firewall policies are extremely important components to any converged network security architecture. However, what these methods do not secure is the content within each call or conversation. The industry is moving towards securing each media path used for voice, video, and data communication. Even internally, there are many threats that may potentially compromise the content within the packets transmitted over an IP network.

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Securing the Line Part 4 - COS Planning / Auditing

Matthew Nickasch — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:00:30 -0400

COS, or Class of Service, is not a new term or idea. Also known as the 'effective permissions' of the telecom world, COS is often overlooked in a security analysis. In fact, the fundamental ideas and implementations of Class of Service have changed very little from the PBX "boom" of the 80's to today. Typically COS is assigned to groups of users (or terminals) to determine who can do what, when, and how. For instance, COS rules may exist to limit international dialing, feature usage such as off-net-call-forwarding, or even for messaging features such as mailbox features and message length, etc.

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