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Nortel-Juniper Marriage?
By Mark Evans | January 18, 2006
Given Juniper Networks’s struggles and a management shakeup, does a merger between Nortel and Juniper makes sense? It might make some sense given Juniper’s strength in the router market and Nortel’s strength in the optical and wireless sectors - meaning there would be little overlap between the two companies. Of course, mega-mergers are often disasters because of culture differences but the telecom equipment market badly needs some consolidation so perhaps it could work, and maybe freshly-minted Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski has the appetite and energy to do something really dramatic. A Juniper-Nortel deal would have to be a merger because Nortel can’t afford to pay $12-billion for Juniper, and Juniper can’t pay $13-billion for Nortel. TheStreet.com’s Scott Moritz has story today on Juniper’s issues and challenges.
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