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Turmoil at Motorola

Gee, things look downright boring at Nortel these days compared to what’s going down at Motorola.
First, CEO Ed Zander decides to walk away after two years on the job. Now, CTO Padmasree Warrior is flying the coop.

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Solid Results Expected From Cisco

UBS Securities analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos is expecting “solid” first-quarter results from Cisco, despite weak enterprise sales in the U.S.
“Strength in the quarter was likely driven by U.S. federal, global SMB, global telco IP spending, European enterprise, and emerging markets,” he said in a research report. “Soft spots were likely U.S. enterprise (retail & financial verticals) [...]

Nortel a Distant #3 in Enterprise

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 [...]

Sprint Rethinks Wi-Max Strategy?

Nortel has been licking its Wi-Max wounds ever since Sprint decided last year that it would build a $3-billion network with other suppliers. However, according to the Wall Street Journal, Sprint may be re-thinking its aggressive Wi-Max plans amid pushback from some shareholders who believe it’s too expensive a plan for unproven technology. Apparently, Sprint [...]

Nortel, Huawei Go Separate Ways

Nortel's plans for joint venture with Huawei Technologies has apparently fallen apart less than four months after being unveiled. Nortel spokeswoman Ann Fuller told the Ottawa Citizen the JV was "not appropriate" (whatever that means). Nortel was supposed to own a majority stake in the Ottawa-based JV, which slated to focus on high-speed equipment such [...]

Maybe Siemens is Willing to Deal

If Mike Zafirovski is considering a major deal, his bargaining power with Siemens was given a big boost when the German  conglomerate unveiled plans to chop 1,000 jobs (administration, sales and development) at its communications division due to lower than expected profits. "The job cuts are unavoidable as Siemens is required to reach cost positions [...]

Troubles for Juniper?

Analysts are not expecting to be overwhelmed when Juniper Networks posts its first-quarter results today. Apparently, demand for routers has softened as carriers such as Verizon looking for equipment at the edge and access parts of the network. Juniper’s prospects will also be impacted by the marriage between Alcatel and Lucent - given Juniper had [...]

And the Next ex-GE Hire is….

….Joseph Flanagan, who becomes vice president of order management. Flanagan, who will report to senior vice-president for global supply chain Joel Hackney, has spent the past 13 years working with General Electric - Nortel CEO Mike Z.’s old stomping grounds. In the wake of the GE-ification of Nortel, it is interesting to look at a [...]

Nortel-Huawei Joint Venture

Now, this is interesting news: Nortel and Huawei have signed an MOU to create a joint venture that will develop ultra-fast broadband technology. Nortel will bring its voice and broadband networking expertise, while Huawei will supply its broadband access technology (and presumably low-labour) to create products that will carry voice, video, data and wireless data [...]