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Avaya to Unveil New Road Map on Jan. 19

By Mark Evans | Published: January 16, 2010
With the $915-million purchase of Nortel’s enterprise division now complete, Avaya plans to provide analysts with a roadmap of its strategic plans for the new, larger business on Jan. 19. Aside from providing details about how Nortel’s 6,000 employees will fit into the scheme of things, Avaya CEO Kevin Kennedy is also expected to talk [...]
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Tasman Networks: The Beginning of the End

By Mark Evans | Published: December 30, 2009
There are lots of reasons to explain why Nortel has crumbled in recent years to near-extinction but if you had to pinpoint a key moment in its demise, it might be the acquisition of Tasman Networks, which was announced on Dec. 27, 2005. The deal happened a few months after Mike Zafirovski had taken over [...]
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