Comments on: All Aboard the VoIP Bandwagon

By: Another VoIP Customer | All About Nortel

Another VoIP Customer | All About Nortel — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:07:47 +0000

[...] guess one of the reasons Nortel is starting to do a marketing push for its VoIP technology is it’s something customers are [...]

By: Tongue.In.Cheek

Tongue.In.Cheek — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:53:32 +0000

BB – since you used to work at Nortel who would you nominate and accept to run their VoIP business? Would they need one for Enterprise and another for Carrier?

By: Tongue.In.Cheek

Tongue.In.Cheek — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:53:32 +0000

BB – since you used to work at Nortel who would you nominate and accept to run their VoIP business? Would they need one for Enterprise and another for Carrier?

By: broadbandbill

broadbandbill — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:27:27 +0000

‘A Cabletron SE”

HRCE — that's brilliant, wish I had though of it myself …– bb

By: Another Nortel Watcher

Another Nortel Watcher — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:26:16 +0000

Exactly. The Nortel Carrier VoIP business is like a car with the engine running and the transmission in neutral. Eventually the car runs out of gas if it just sits there. None of the senior leadership team have a clue what direction to take the VoIP portfolio in so that it doesn't erode and die.

By: broadbandbill

broadbandbill — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:25:23 +0000

Tired,

See my post above. Also, baseball players can’t play Monday-morning quarterbacks; this was the WRONG TEAM from the get go!…–bb

By: broadbandbill

broadbandbill — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:22:45 +0000

HRCE is correct; not just bad decisions after bad decisions but the WORST decisions time after time, which, mathematically, is practically impossible….– bb

By: Another Nortel Watcher

Another Nortel Watcher — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:20:39 +0000

Besides having more deployed ports than any other Carrier VoIP solution on the planet, Nortel's Carrier VoIP solution uses more energy, real estate, engineering, and maintenance resources than any other VoIP solution on the market.

Oh I forgot, we only care about those details for enterprise data products.

By: broadbandbill

broadbandbill — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:16:53 +0000

TIC,

VoIP is not just a great foundation for Nortel but also its salvation, however not a single person at the top knows how to exploit it; not one! The future of VoIP requires software architecture DNA, can anyone tell me who that person is on the management team? No one!….–bb

By: Tired

Tired — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:15:30 +0000

Is it not possible that at least some of the decisions made by Mike Z and company were really just the best of the choices available at the time? In retrospect, yes, many bad decisions were made, but I do wonder what it must have been like in their place at that time, faced with limited bad choices. I'm not trying to defend the management team at Nortel, just questioning if it's really fair to claim that they have always made all the wrong choices. It's easy to play Monday-morning quarterback.