Surprising 2017 Tech Searches

We spent some time compiling what the community of tech buyers is searching for on TMCnet this year and were a bit surprised. The top result was Orange – the U.K based carrier followed by the largest tech company in China – Huawei and then the FCC and Verizon. Why Orange, we wondered? Nortel was a bit of a surprise to us as well because they no longer exist. Perhaps the results show just how much content TMCnet has written about Canadian-based Northern Telecom over the decades?

Technically, the company went bankrupt and was split and sold to GENBAND and Avaya – Interestingly, Mark Straton who used to head up Siemens Enterprise Communications was on a panel last week at ITEXPO and mentioned his company drove up the price of Nortel during the bankruptcy process – this in part led to the recent Avaya bankruptcy.

Other surprises – Ovum is a research firm but hit the top ten… So did RingCentral – coming in just under iPhone!

The Acision brand no longer exists. It became Comverse then Xura and soon will become Mavenir Systems.

Quintum is another surprise – the company made VoIP gateways back in the day but the brand hasn’t been used for many years.

MIT made the list as the only university – interesting but not really as TMCnet is a tech site.

Notable items missing were IBM, Google and Microsoft – for whatever reason.

Anyone else you think should have made the list but seems mysteriously absent? Be sure to let us know in the comments… Thanks!

Orange
Huawei
FCC
Verizon
Nortel
nokia
Qualcomm
iPhone
RingCentral
Ovum
Intel
israel
ADC
Comverse
tangoe
shoretel
AOL
Airtel
PCI
GSMA
storage+disk
MasterCard
BlackBerry
Lenovo
Avaya
Yealink
Five9
Ericsson
Twitter
Siemens
Fonality
MIT
Gateway
acision
Paid
ZigBee
quintum
DevConnect
ADTRAN
mitel
Samsung
Symantec
Dropbox
ServiceNow
ZTE
Oracle
Broadcom

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