All About Nortel

For anyone needing a hit of Nortel news, there could be some happening this week during Global Connect, an annual conference in Grapevine Gaylord, Tex. for Nortel enterprise customers hosted by the International Nortel Networks Users Association.
Keynotes will be delivered by Joel Hackney (today) and Mike Zafirovski (tomorrow). Mike Z. will talk about: “Nortel’s strategic [...]

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Someone whispered in my ear that Nortel has signed a contract to outsource most of its product testing (quality assurance, performance validation) to IBM. Apparently, Nortel gets access to IBM’s reseller network for its enterprise products. Anyone want to confirm?

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Rich 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 [...]

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According to research by IntelliComm Analytics, Cisco and Avaya are virtually neck-and-neck when it comes to the leading enterprise telecom suppliers in North America during Q1. Avaya had 20.9% of product revenue was Cisco was a smidge behind with 20.9%. Nortel, meanwhile, had 12.1%.
Tech Confidential Blog suggests the study illustrates why Avaya was such an [...]

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Nortel’s partnership strategy has taken a small step forward with plans to work with IBM to provide small and medium-sized businesses with VoIP and IP communication services such as unified messaging.
“This offering provides Nortel channel partners with a remarkable opportunity to grow with a unified communications solution from two worldwide leaders, and represents our [...]

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After dealing with flat or losing market share for the past four or five years in the enterprise market, Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski said the company has rebounded to become a strong contender for the number two spot behind Cisco. In an interview with eWeek, Zafirovski said Nortel started to turn the corner in the [...]

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Nortel’s efforts to spread the hyperconnectivity (HyperConnectivity?) message is now officially on tour. CEO Mike Zafirovski will be delivering a keynote at the Interop conference in Las Vegas tomorrow to push the concept, which has been Nortel’s strategic mantra in recent weeks. He’ll also be talking about how is focused on helping businesses take advantage [...]

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Ever since Nortel bought Bay Networks for more than $9-billion in 1998, Nortel has been adamant about establishing itself as a leading enterprise player. The idea, in theory, is it should be able to leverage its expertise and strong position in the carrier market to attract enterprise customers. The only problem is this strategy has [...]

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According to Information Week, Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski will spill some of the beans this week about the New Nortel. This will include a new, streamlined global services business that will focus on 70 "discrete" services rather than 700. Mike Z. believes that with a better on services, which now account for 20% of Nortel's [...]

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