RE: OT: Cisco vs. Nortel

From: cciestudy (cciestudy@mid-world.net)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2008 - 10:19:03 ART


I have had the "pleasure" of dealing with Nortel Voice equipment and
software and I was not impressed. Scary to say the least.

 

One of my counterparts sent around a screen shot of a configuration screen
of Nortel 8600/8300 for setting routing "administrative distance". Here are
the highlights of the screen shot.

 

See anything wrong with this picture.

 

RoutePref

Protocol Default Configured

 

Local 0 0

Static 5 5

ospfIntra 20 20

ospfInter 25 25

ebgp 45 45

rip 100 100

ospfExternal1 120 120

ospfExternal2 125 125

ibgp 175 175

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Bill
Eyer
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:49 PM
To: Brad Ellis
Cc: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: OT: Cisco vs. Nortel

 

Nortel's core business is voice and they stick to it pretty well. For

routing/switching their history isn't so good. They bought out a pretty

nice company in Bay Networks, then put nothing into Rnd, fell way

behind, then bought Tasmin to try and get back in the game. How do we

know they won't do the same thing again. Their big money is in carrier

phone switches. We used to be all Nortel, now are all Cisco and happier

for it.

 

Sincerely,

 

Bill

 

Brad Ellis wrote:

> Have you guys seen this?

>

> http://blip.tv/file/1233122

>

> It's about Nortel's claim that they are more "energy efficient" than

> Cisco.

>

> Isn't this kind of like comparing a Ferrari to a Ford Escort? Anyone

> else have any thoughts on this? I'm not that familiar with Nortel.

>

> thanks,

> Brad Ellis

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