Re: OT: Cisco vs. Nortel

From: Ina&Laurean (ina.laurean@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2008 - 12:07:00 ART


Muhammad,

I not sure how did you get to the conclusion that I've said that Nortel is
out of the market????

There are other proprietary technologies like SMLT where Nortel does better
than Cisco but some pieces of proprietary technology doesn't make the whole
line of products better for an enterprise wide deployment.

I've worked with both Nortel and Cisco for long enough to have an informed
opinion and I don't believe I am biased in anyway by any Cisco certification
program.

Laurean

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Muhammad Nasim
<muhammad.nasim@gmail.com>wrote:

> Who on earth told you that Nortel is out of the market.
>
> I am seeing a very NEGATIVE impact of Cisco Certifications.
>
> Nortel STP(Nortel Proprietary) is far more better then RSTP of Cisco. Voice
> and data loadbalancing is excellent in Nortel swithces.
>
> Yeah Yeah Nortel does not have FWSM and IDSM (which in my personal opinion
> does have any ROI as well)
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> 2008/9/10 Ina&Laurean <ina.laurean@gmail.com>
>
> I've worked with Nortel switches for some time and they have good products.
>>
>> They are behind Cisco in consistency across switching platform and service
>> modules.
>>
>> There is also a problem with "direction" I recently attended a Nortel
>> seminar for unified communications and I was expecting to see demos and
>> solutions form Nortel but what was mostly presented is Microsoft OCS and
>> how
>> Nortel can integrate with this product ....
>>
>> It looks like they want to use Microsoft marketing machine to move them
>> forward but I am not sure how this will work for them.
>>
>>
>>
>> Laurean
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Bill Eyer <beyer@optonline.net> wrote:
>>
>> > 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,
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