All About Nortel

Given how quiet it has been on the Nortel front, you have to believe the senior executive team has packed up for cottage country.
But AAN needs to keep feeding your Nortel fix so I was scouring the Web looking for interesting tidbits when a Reuters story from last week caught my attention. Francois Lancon, who [...]

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On the heels of Cisco’s less-than-rosey outlook, Alcatel-Lucent is also cautious about the telecom equipment landscape.
In posting its fourth-quarter results, Alcatel-Lucent CEO Patricia Russo said: “While the long-term prospects of our industry remain good, the macroeconomic environment has created uncertainty in our markets in the last few months.” (Source: TheStreet.com)
The company, which has suspended its [...]

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If Cisco is a harbinger for the health of the telecom equipment market, 2008 might be a tough year.
In posting fairly good fiscal second-quarter results, Cisco said revenue will only grow 10% in the third-quarter compared with its long-term expectations of 12% to 17%. He said customers in the U.S. and Europe are being “cautious”. [...]

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This is not a surprise…but Cisco continues to dominate the worldwide router and switch market.
According to Synergy Group Research, Cisco had 66.1% of the $3.3-billion router market in Q3. The router market grew 21% year-over-year, with service provider routers accounting for $2.4-billion of sales (+29%). Juniper gained 1.7% market share in the carrier ethernet market, [...]

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Lost amid Microsoft’s announcement earlier this week about its unified communications products was a deal that will sell Nortel’s enterprise products, including its VoIP, data and wireless networking products. To support its sales activities, Dell will also be using Nortel’s professional services.
While Dell is known more for selling PCs and laptops, it seems like [...]

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Has it really been a year since Nortel signed a strategic alliance with Microsoft to provide unifed communication services to business users?
According to both companies, the deal has been a huge success with 430,000 individual end-user licenses for their “joint offerings” from more than 100 countries in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Greg St. [...]

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For anyone wondering about what Nortel and Microsoft plan to together in the wake of their partnership announcement earlier this year, all the juicy details - or at least some of them - can be found here.

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In keeping with Nortel’s all-bullish, all-the-time approach these days, the company is optimistic about Latin America where first-half sales climbed 22%. Latin Business Chronicle has a story featuring Martha Bejar, who heads up Nortel’s Latin American operations. "The region is…..fantastic," she said. "We’re very bullish about it." Bejar said there is strong demand for all [...]

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Despite its painful and costly experience with BSNL, Nortel appears committed to doing business in India. At a recent telecom conference in Malaysia, Nortel executive Phil Edholm said a five-year managed services agreement with Bharti Televentures is an indication of his company's increased focus on India. He said Nortel is particularly focused on SMBs (a [...]

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Nortel is pressing ahead with a new channel program called “Accelerate” in Europe and the Middle East that aims to drive sales in the enterprise and oh-so-tempting small and medium size business market.  The program, launched last month, is part of Nortel’s renewed efforts to nurture external sales channels - something that probably did not [...]

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