All About Nortel

I just came across this CBC news report (Hat tip to Nortel Buzzboard) about how the Internet is apparently headed for a massive traffic, which CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge breathlessly opines “could slow the Internet and, possibly, mean the end of the Internet as we know it.”
It’s not surprising Nortel loves this kind of report, [...]

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Putting the blame on declining purchases from Nortel, optical equipment maker Bookham Inc. said it has no choice but adopt an “aggressive overhead reduction plan” that will see it eliminate employees, consolidating its U.K. semiconductor business and move more R&D to China. Bookham said Nortel will only account for 5% to 10% of sales in [...]

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After being pushed aside since the end of the telecom boom, fiber-optic network equipment is staging a comeback. So says Nortel CTO John Roese who said demand is increasing as the amount of Internet traffic steadily increases. “That Internet bubble that happened in 2000, where we over-built the optical domain, and everybody said we’d never [...]

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