All About Nortel

TD Securities analyst Chris Umiastowski published a research report looking at the possibility of Nortel buying Avaya. He sees two reasons why Nortel would want to make the deal:
1. If well executed, a Nortel-Avaya combination see Nortel become the leading player in the enterprise telephony market.
2. It would expand Nortel’s services business given 46%, or [...]

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Light Reading has a story on whether Nortel should buy Avaya. It includes a quote from Prudential Equity Group analyst Inder Singh, who said: “We believe the enterprise telephony space is ripe for consolidation, where a large number of competitors continue to face off in the midst of a worldwide market transition to IP telephony.” [...]

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In light of the Wall Street Journal reporting that Nortel may be interested in buying Avaya, UBS Securities said the possibility of a Nortel-Avaya deal “would be consistent with Nortel’s strategy of increasing focus on enterprise and professional services” but that it would involve high integration risks. In a research report, UBS analyst Nikos Theosopoulos [...]

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If Nortel is really interested in becoming a major player in the enterprise market, then there might be something to speculation it may be interested in buying Avaya. According to the Wall St. Journal, Nortel and Avaya were in discussions but couldn’t reached a deal after failing on two fronts: a price, and whether Nortel [...]

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After dealing with flat or losing market share for the past four or five years in the enterprise market, Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski said the company has rebounded to become a strong contender for the number two spot behind Cisco. In an interview with eWeek, Zafirovski said Nortel started to turn the corner in the [...]

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For some insight into Nortel’s vision for the future, check out its latest e-newsletter.

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Disclaimer: if you’re looking for a happy-happy post about Nortel, no need to read on. If you want to read an interesting tale, this one is good.
Tom Keating writes the popular VoIP & Gadgets blog. A little while ago, he wrote a post about Blade Network Technologies, which Nortel sold last year to a private [...]

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The toothless OSC has agreed to walk away from its investigation of Nortel after agreeing to a settlement that will see the company pay $1-million to cover the OSC’s costs. Makes me feel a lot better.

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Russell Shaw has some of the details on a new router (Nortel Secure Router 4134) being introduced by Nortel featuring VoIP capabilities.

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Want to hear the hyper-connectivity story straight from the horse’s mouth - or, in this case, the CTO’s mouth? Telephony Magazine has a podcast with Nortel’s John Roese.

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