From: CCIEin2006 (ciscocciein2006@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2008 - 12:12:36 ART
Let me see... you walk into a Nortel shop and the customer loves his ASN
routers and they are reliable but its time for an upgrade. What model Nortel
router would you recommend as a replacement?
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)
>
>
>
>
> 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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