Category Archives: Industry Sales

Nortel Providing 40G Optical to Bell

By Mark Evans | Published: September 4, 2008
On the surface, Nortel selling 40G optical technology to Bell Canada isn’t terribly newsworthy. If you look a little deeper, however, it’s pretty interesting. First, the optical market has been showing signs of life after the bandwidth glut caused during the telecom boom saw a tremendous amount of dark fiber created. As online video, particularly [...]
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Richards Bullish on Nortel’s China Prospects

By Mark Evans | Published: August 28, 2008
Barry Richards is, by far, the most bullish analyst on Nortel with a 12-month target price of $23. Some of his enthusiasm for Nortel’s prospect lie in his belief that Nortel is well positioned to do well as China’s telecom market evolves, grows and consolidates. Among the activity is a merger between China Netcom Group [...]
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Nortel to Play Ball with the Mets

By Mark Evans | Published: August 25, 2008
Nortel has signed a multi-year agreement to provide a unified communications system for the new Citi Field in New York, where the New York Mets will play their homes games. As part of the deal, Nortel will become the Mets’ official network systems supplier. The agreement is part of a multi-million dollar network being installed [...]
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Some Good News for Nortel

By Mark Evans | Published: August 12, 2008
As much as I’ve been accused from time to time of being overly-enthusiastic about highlighting Nortel’s struggles, I’m also happy to put the spotlight on positive news. For example, Synergy Research Group just released its Q2 survey for router/switch sales to service providers. Guess what? The leading vendor in terms of quarter-to-quarter growth is Nortel..by [...]
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Nortel’s Asian Ambitions

By Mark Evans | Published: July 18, 2008
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, [...]
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Alcatel-Lucent Sees Market Uncertainty Too

By Mark Evans | Published: February 8, 2008
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 [...]
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