I am not blaming Belleville. I think the blame lies with Nortel HQ in Toronto.

There are many ways to solve the resource problem creatively. I do not know the specifics, but it seems to me that a certain amount of wireless resources should be at least partially accountable to enterprise requirements. This amount should reflect not what the revenue ratios are not but where nortel projects (and wants) them to be. Cross pollination of the managers (an enterprise manager in wireless and a wireless manager in enterprise) would be another logical step.

IMO keeping the two entities separate and warring over headcount is a symptom of the problems nortel has.

If you do not have resources allocated to solve a problem then it will remain unsolved.

Blaming the people in Belleville for the way that Nortel organizes its business is absurd.

I am not, and never have been, a manager.

This comment illustrates *perfectly* the problem with nortel and it siloed management. In the real world, the enterprise and wireless buisnesses are *not* independant from each other. Why is the integration and synergy a question of headcount and budget? One reason: empire.

To make things simple….

They do not have the money to come up with a “wide area wireless component to their published core business strategy”.

Enterprise Voice has a tiny R&D spend. Considerably less than Wireless. Wireless probably has more people working on LTE investigatiion and prototyping than Enterprise Voice R&D has in total (certainly in Belleville).

If the geniuses in Wirelsee think it is vital to have a story for how wide area wirelss works with Enterprise Voice then they should give up some of their R&D funding and head count.

I am not blaming Belleville. I think the blame lies with Nortel HQ in Toronto.

There are many ways to solve the resource problem creatively. I do not know the specifics, but it seems to me that a certain amount of wireless resources should be at least partially accountable to enterprise requirements. This amount should reflect not what the revenue ratios are not but where nortel projects (and wants) them to be. Cross pollination of the managers (an enterprise manager in wireless and a wireless manager in enterprise) would be another logical step.

IMO keeping the two entities separate and warring over headcount is a symptom of the problems nortel has.

If you do not have resources allocated to solve a problem then it will remain unsolved.

Blaming the people in Belleville for the way that Nortel organizes its business is absurd.

I am not, and never have been, a manager.

This comment illustrates *perfectly* the problem with nortel and it siloed management. In the real world, the enterprise and wireless buisnesses are *not* independant from each other. Why is the integration and synergy a question of headcount and budget? One reason: empire.

To make things simple….

They do not have the money to come up with a “wide area wireless component to their published core business strategy”.

Enterprise Voice has a tiny R&D spend. Considerably less than Wireless. Wireless probably has more people working on LTE investigatiion and prototyping than Enterprise Voice R&D has in total (certainly in Belleville).

If the geniuses in Wirelsee think it is vital to have a story for how wide area wirelss works with Enterprise Voice then they should give up some of their R&D funding and head count.

I'd like to believe it, but my contacts in Nortel wireless often point to imaginary flat spots on their foreheads and say that “these are from the Enterprise door slamming when we go calling.”

And given that the Enterprise BU – still to this day – has no wide area wireless component to their published core business strategy, I'd say the evidence in support of the silo culture I refer to speaks for itself. BTW, I refer to the Enterprise voice business run by the Belleville mafia, not the larger Enterprise business.

For years the Enterprise Voice business, Meridian-1 and CS 1000, has been run as a cash cow. They compete with Cisco and Avaya with both hands tied behind their backs financially.