From: Azher (azheramin@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2008 - 12:22:28 ART
Take a look at the first 100G solution from Nortel. It will be on demo this
year in Supercomputing Austin.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25946
-Azher
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Ina&Laurean <ina.laurean@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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