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Posted by Ramon F Herrera on October 13, 2005, 7:30 am
Please log in for more thread options Yesterday in Houston, a Nortel representative said to a customer that a Cisco acquisition of Nortel is in the works. He added that Nortel has been restructuring itself in anticipation to the acquisition. Since I am at the Asterisk conference, I presented the above as a question to one of the conference speakers, who happens to be very knowledgeable about the two companies. His answer? "I have heard that claim before but I'll believe it when I see it... Nortel's hardware is excellent but its software sucks". Any comments? -Ramon F Herrera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by www.BradReese.Com on October 13, 2005, 12:21 pm
Please log in for more thread options Hi Ramon, John Chambers and Cisco have the most successful "acquisition strategy" on earth. Nortel does not fit that strategy. Sincerely, Brad Reese BradReese.Com Cisco Repair Service Experts http://www.BradReese.Com 1293 Hendersonville Road, Suite 17 Asheville, North Carolina USA 28803 USA & Canada: 877-549-2680 International: 828-277-7272 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Jeff Pratt on October 13, 2005, 3:15 pm
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Ramon F Herrera wrote: Well, I guess the question is: "What does nortel have that cisco would want?" The only answers I can come up with are: customers, and an aging TDM platform that nortel's been trying to move all their customers off of. There really isn't all that much left that cisco doesn't already have. J | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by on October 13, 2005, 8:30 am
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>There really isn't all that much left that cisco doesn't already have.
Don't forget the call-center applications. I work for a company that uses Nortel Symposium. Recently there has been some interest in Cisco solutions as well, but there is nothing at the moment that Cisco can offer that even compares to Nortel's offerings in terms of configurability (scripting of phone menu's), reporting etc. I'd say that (apart from the customer base) the callcenter market is a big one and Nortel's offerings would give Cisco a proven solution in this area. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by DPGumby on October 14, 2005, 11:47 pm
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Yes but that product only works on Nortel, so why would Cisco want something that would have to work with their IP system. > >There really isn't all that much left that cisco doesn't already have.
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> Don't forget the call-center applications. I work for a company that > uses Nortel Symposium. Recently there has been some interest in Cisco > solutions as well, but there is nothing at the moment that Cisco can > offer that even compares to Nortel's offerings in terms of > configurability (scripting of phone menu's), reporting etc. > > I'd say that (apart from the customer base) the callcenter market is a > big one and Nortel's offerings would give Cisco a proven solution in > this area. > | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Cisco acquisition of Nortel is in the works. He added that Nortel has
> been restructuring itself in anticipation to the acquisition.
>
> Since I am at the Asterisk conference, I presented the above as a
> question to one of the conference speakers, who happens to be very
> knowledgeable about the two companies. His answer? "I have heard that
> claim before but I'll believe it when I see it... Nortel's hardware is
> excellent but its software sucks".
>
> Any comments?
>
> -Ramon F Herrera