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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Rich Tehrani, president and group editor in chief with TMC, did a Q&A recently with Tony Rybczynski (left), Nortel’s director of strategic enterprise technologies. Here’s an excerpt:
RT: What trends are you noticing in the communications market?
TR: Rather than going through a list of hot technologies (UC, WiMAX, 802.1111n, PBT, SIP, Web2.0, SOA and Communications Enabled [...]
Nortel Hires New Sales Exec
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Nortel has tapped Bill Nelson to become executive vice-president, global sales - hiring him away from EMC where he is senior vice president and general manager of EMC’s Resource Management Software Group, which is focused on the development and sale of applications, network, and storage management tools.
“Today, we further sharpen our focus on our customers [...]
The Man Who Predicted Nortel’s Fall
Sunday, January 6th, 2008You may not have heard of David Chapman, an investment adviser and technical strategist with brokerage Union Securities Ltd.
He was, however, one of the few people who has the foresight (and luck!) to suggest that Nortel shares would tumble at the height of the telecom boom in 2000. Chapman said Nortel would tumble to $10 [...]
New Comment System
Saturday, January 5th, 2008If you’re going to make a comment on All About Nortel, you’ll probably notice a difference in the comment system.
I’m now using a comment system from a start-up called Disqus, which features threading and comment ratings as well as a forum. Given how enthusiastic many of you are about making comments, I think you’ll [...]
Nortel Bloggers Go AWOL
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008Hey, where are the Nortel bloggers?
John Roese hasn’t written a post since Dec. 5, while Phil Edholm’s last appearance was Dec. 20. If they’re going to build an audience, they need to be write more frequently.
Of course, Roese and Edholm are senior executives with a lot of responsibilities so blogging on a regular basis may [...]
Juniper Sees Lots of Room for Growth
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008If you’re looking for insight into where the telecom equipment market may be headed, check out this interview with Juniper Networks CEO Scott Kriens, who believes there will be a deluge of Web traffic as more people use it for video, data, entertainment and communications.
He believes that Juniper will be able to compete against Cisco [...]