LightReading has put together a comprehensive review of Nortel over the past eight years – from the heady days of the telecom boom to last week’s bankruptcy filing. For anyone who hasn’t got their fill yet of Nortel, check it out.
Interesting read on the Editorial Review: “MacDonald, a technology writer for various newspapers, including the Ottawa Citizen… He calls the government's sanctioning of Nortel's monopolistic position as the preferred supplier for Bell Canada “a covert industrial policy”–one that allowed the company to grow into the international player that it is.”
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Page 8 on this lightreading review is of most interest to me –> Mike Z's focus on R&D: IMS, IPTV and WiMAX.
Right now Nortel is not a big player in IPTV (U-verse & FiOS all use motorola gear), I'm not sure about IMS but I do know mobile wimax was a huge failure and a very significant waste of R&D. Funny how they were trying to convince everyone to join wimax back in 07, and the BTS was abandoned later with hundreds of millions R&D money wasted.
Look at what's making money for Nortel now: CDMA, GSM, VoIP, and possibly now 40G with amazingly strong momentum & technical superiority.
On top of that, didn't Mike Z 'expect the UC joint venture with MS will generate 1 billion in revenue'? Where are the numbers or was it just a pipe dream?
How about comparing the result of Enterprise unit when Hackney was in charge Vs. Steve Slattery, who was hired later by Cisco as an exec for a good reason.
To top things off, failed Ethernet consolidation effort of the departed CTO. To be fare, that initative was planned a long time ago and it never got underway. Only result was massive project delays, and now probably more cancellations. As many others have said, the only legacy from CTO's office was the talking avatars. I'm glad the political R&D camp (CTO org) started under the name of 'R&D consolidation' was dismentled. To be fair it was long overdue.
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Assume for a minute that half of these catastrophes never happened, then that half of the remaining are grossly exaggerated, then simply “forget” half of the rest – and it still a catastrophe.
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Assume for a minute that half of these catastrophes never happened, then that half of the remaining are grossly exaggerated, then simply “forget” half of the rest – and it still a catastrophe.
The Decline and Fall of Nortel
LightReading has put together a comprehensive review of Nortel over the past eight years – from the heady days of the telecom boom to last week’s bankruptcy filing. For anyone who hasn’t got their fill yet of Nortel, check it out.
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