All About Nortel

One week, Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski is nominated by U.S. president George Bush to an IT advisory committee, the next week Nortel wins a 10-year contract worth as much as $300-million from the U.S. Social Security Administration. You be the judge: coincidence or is there a pork belly-ish connection?
In any event, Nortel is going to [...]

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The Globe and Mail has a Q&A today with Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski. One of the first questions is: “Do you pay attention to all the noise, such as the blogs that focus on Nortel?”, which makes me wonder whether the question is referring to All About Nortel.
Sadly, Mike Z. deftly sidesteps the question [...]

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I’m taking a much-needed vacation (see below) so you’ll have to get your Nortel fix somewhere else this week.

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UBS Securities analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos said if Nortel is going to acquire an enterprise-focused equipment supplier, it will have to do a deal using cash and look at targets with low enterprise value to sales multiples, or companies with a market capitalization of less than $2-billion to $3-billion.
In a report, he said that given Nortel’s [...]

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So, 3Com is apparently in play - and Nortel is apparently one of the potential suitors.
First, if Nortel is interested in 3Com, it will likely have to compete against private equity investors who may see 3Com as relatively inexpensive and fixable (see Blogging Buyouts more on this idea).
The question is whether Nortel wants/need 3Com and [...]

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Apparently, there’s speculation Nortel may be interested in acquiring 3Com. Interesting.

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In a cost-cutting move that also takes advantage of China’s growing pool of engineering talent, Nortel plans to boost the number of engineers in China.
Jackson Wu, who heads up Nortel’s Chinese operations, told Bloomberg News that “a significant portion” R&D jobs will move to China because “the difference in costs is just too big”. He [...]

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InformationWeek’s Frank Bulk offers up good reviews for Nortel’s strategic focus on providing wireless solutions to the enterprise market, especially the offering of Wi-Fi technology.
“The introduction of 802.11n offers it a window into the enterprise Wi-Fi market. As the broader market reconsiders the previous Wi-Fi generations’ centralization of the data plane, it makes perfect [...]

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Clent Richardson, who had a oh-so-short stint as Nortel’s chief marketing officer, has a new gig as Tivo’s CMO. Richardson was hired during the Bill Owens regime, and announced his resignation a month after Mike Zafirovski replaced Owens as CEO.

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Has it really been a year since Nortel signed a strategic alliance with Microsoft to provide unifed communication services to business users?
According to both companies, the deal has been a huge success with 430,000 individual end-user licenses for their “joint offerings” from more than 100 countries in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Greg St. [...]

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