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Archive for August, 2006

VoIP 1, 2, 3: Analyst Reaction

Orion Securities analyst Duncan Stewart has picked up on the news report that Nortel has a new channel program in place to make it easier for existing and potential customers to migrate to VoIP from legacy telephony systems. Stewart is pleased Nortel has recognized a problem that encouraged channel partners to “rip and replace” Nortel gear [...]

Ethernet Switch Market Robust

Dell’Oro Group issued a report recently that the 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch market grew substantially in the second quarter of 2006 to $302-million with the modular segment driving most of the strong results. Cisco is the market leader with Force10, Foundry, Nortel, Extreme and HP rounding out the top-six. “Not only did 10 Gigabit Ethernet [...]

Class-Action Lawsuits - 1, 2, 3

The Ottawa Citizen has a story today - actually a Q&A - looking at Nortel’s class-action lawsuits - two of which were settled earlier this year for $2.4-billion. Investors, however, should also keep in mind there are still RCMP, OSC, FBI and SEC investigations happening that involve the company’s accounting scandal. The Citizen also has [...]

VoIP by Numbers, 1, 2, 3

Nortel has a new program called IPT 1-2-3 to encourage sales of customers looking to migrate to VoIP from legacy systems. An interesting comment was made to CRN by Pat Patterson, Nortel’s director of North American IP telephony marketing, who said: “When we looked at the large installed base that Nortel has in hand, we [...]

Nortel Hires New China Chief

Nortel has appointed Jackson Wu as the new president for China. Wu was previously previously head of a former Nortel joint venture, Tong Guang-Nortel in Shenzhen. Before joining Nortel in 1993, Wu was president of Datacraft Ltd. in Taiwan. It looks as though he is replacing Robert Mao, who had been head of Nortel’s Chinese [...]

Riddle of the Day: R&D

Just a thought but…how come Nortel is still spending close to $1.9-billion a year on R&D when it’s apparently looking to focus on businesses with at least 20% market share. You would think that R&D would be among the areas where CEO Mike Zafirovski’s cost-cutting program would have tackled already.

Nortel Looking to Unload R&D Lab

Another day, another cost-cutting exercise at Nortel. This time, it wants to lease one of its research labs in Ottawa. Apparently, there has been some interest in the 180,000 sq. foot facility. According to the Ottawa Citizen, Nortel originally planned to sell or lease three of its labs at its Ottawa campus under a “real-estate consolidation program” announced [...]

Nortel’s Pan-Pacific Deal

We’ve got to be in the dog days of summer when the most you’re scrambling for Nortel news…:)….According to TMCNet, will reportedly supply, deploy and maintain the optical solution on the west coast of the U.S. for Southern Cross, which operates a 30,500-kilometer submarine cable network  that links broadband services and Internet traffic from [...]

NT-Microsoft Deal Dissected

Sci-Tech has a lengthy story looking at the recent Nortel-Microsoft with some insight from customers and analysts.

Nortel’s IP-TV Offering Now Features Programming

Nortel hopes to grab a foothold in the emerging IP-TV market through a partnership with Broadstream Communications. Rather than just being able to offer IP-TV technology to service providers, Nortel can also offer them pre-packaged television programming through Broadstream to sell a complete solution. ”As rural telcos look to offer their customers new IP-TV services, a [...]