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Watching the Gear Makers
I saw a MarketWatch bulletin with the headline Tellabs, Alcatel-Lucent are top telecoms and it got me thinking about Nortel, who was all over the news this week with reports of its imminent demise, as competitors were ready to tear...
Is This the Beginning of Nortel Sell-off?
Radware is acquiring Nortel's Layer4-7 application delivery products, which were originally acquired by Nortel in 2000 by way of its purchase of Alteon. It was not unexpected that Nortel would shed some assets as it strives to restructure itself while under...
Alvarion Responds to Nortel Change of Heart
Alvarion -- playing the role of jilted lover -- is justifiably perturbed by the announcement yesterday that Nortel is "refining" their carrier focus. By refining, Nortel is saying that the company "...has decided to discontinue its mobile WiMAX business and end...
TMC Blogs: The Week in Review
What was the big story this week? No doubt it was the inauguration of Barack Obama, as the 44th President of the United States and the first African-American to hold that post. Truly a historic day for our nation: a...
TMCnet Blogs Week in Review
It's been quite a week for news this week, and not just the run of the mill product announcements, customer wins and such. Some rather big things went down this week, and the TMCnet family of bloggers was all over...
Nortel: Politics, Bankruptcy and Business as Usual
Rich offers some in depth analysis of the Nortel saga, with a look at the bankruptcy laws of both the US and Canada, and some history of what drove Nortel to this particular fork in the road. Rich also shares his...
Hard Times as Nortel Bankruptcy Looms
Rich is reporting in his blog that Nortel will file for bankruptcy today, ending the run for one of Canada's biggest corporations and one of telecom's storied companies. This marks quite the fall from grace for a company that was once...
Infonetics: Carrier VoIP is Down...
A new research report from Infonetics tells us something that many of us have felt coming for some time. According to the report Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers carriers are not likely to engage in VoIP equipment purchases...
Rich Does Wall Street; Nortel Does Hospitality
Rich is down at the NY Stock Exchange this morning attending an event sponsored by Nortel and featuring Nortel executives Araldo Menegon, VP Northeast Region, and Joel Hackney, President of Nortel's Enterprise group, as well as a keynote by Don...
Action-Packed Week (Part 2)
Picking up where we left off yesterday... On Tuesday, I had the chance to attend SpeechTek, and visit with some of the leading companies in the space. NortelAmong those companies was Nortel, who previewed their forthcoming Interactive Communications Portal, which will be available...
Nortel's LTE Patent Licensing Play
Last month a group of vendors agreed to commit to a licensing framework, whereby they would license their patents relating to the next-generation wireless technology LTE, or Long-Term Evolution, according to “fair and reasonable” terms. Long-Term Evolution is a...
Nortel Keynote at ITEXPO
Tony Rybczynski, director of strategic enterprise technologies at Nortel, delivered a keynote at ITEXPO yesterday stressing a converging world and a tectonic shift occurring in the market. Tony began by suggesting the show change the meaning of the acronym...
Nortel Looking Forward to Microsoft OCS Launch
I just got back from Texas and had a great meeting with Nortel execs. We talked about SOA, and the evolution of convergence, and of course we spoke at length about unifed communications (UC). Check out my article here. Also...
Nortel Helps BT Handle 1 Million Calls in a Day
It must have been a fairly busy day. BT announced that the Department for Work and Pension’s (DWP) newly installed IP Telephony platform handled over 1,000,000 calls in a single day. According to BT’s news release: The Integrated...
Nortel's Thomas Speaks to Communication Developers
A last-minute replacement for Vish Nandall, Nortel’s Michael Thomas delivered a keynote presentation titled Wireless Service Providers (WiSPs) and Application Service Providers (ASPs) Partnering for Mobile Internet Applications. Thomas asked the audience, “Why should ASPs partner with Wireless ISPs...
