Nortel lowered its revenue expectations for the third quarter on Wednesday, blaming delays in delivering certain products, and said it will consider selling its metro Ethernet networking business.
The metro Ethernet business is in need of consolidation, Nortel said, and selling the division will provide funds for further restructuring to cut costs and maintain margins.
Nortel will continue to invest in research and development of metro Ethernet products while it looks for a buyer for the division, and will maintain its timetable for introducing new products, it said.
Nortel now expects third-quarter revenue to total around $2.3 billion, a drop from $2.7 billion in the third quarter last year.
Performance for the rest of the year will also be lower than expected, Nortel said, as carriers are cutting their capital expenditure plans and some enterprise customers have deferred investments in IT and optical networks. It expects full-year revenue to drop by between 2% and 4% compared to last year, whereas in August it forecast that it would grow by a similar percentage.
Rss FeedRss Feed
The Leader in Network Knowledge
Partner Content
Simplify Your Branch Infrastructure
Learn how to simplify your branch infrastructure while dramatically increasing app performance with Citrix Branch Repeater.
Download the Free Info Kit
Next-Gen Load Balancing
Free Guide: "Next Gen Load Balancing: 8 Things You Need to Handle Today's Network Traffic" shows you the functionality needed in your next load balancer.
Download the Free Guide
Accelerate Your Web Apps by up to 5x
Free Guide: "The Secret to Getting Maximum Speed from your Web Applications."' Learn how you can deliver Web apps up to 5x faster.
Download the Free Guide
Comments (4)
Nortel is dead By Anonymous on September 17, 2008, 12:29 pmold company with old technology.
Reply | Read entire comment
Nortel's Ethernet Routing Switches are the bestBy Anonymous on September 17, 2008, 4:41 pmvery good price and high quality
Reply | Read entire comment
It's always funnyBy Matt Konwiser on September 17, 2008, 5:08 pmWhen people make unsupported statements and don't bother to identify themselves. It would be nice if market analysts and tech analysts gave Nortel the same recognition...
Reply | Read entire comment
nortel's technologyBy guest on July 7, 2009, 7:44 pmold company with old technology? You must not work with nortel equipment... Nortel's networking equipment is much better than cisco's, and it's cheaper. The hardware...
Reply | Read entire comment
View all comments