Nortel Jumps on the VoIP Bandwagon

One area where Nortel (NT) does well is VoIP, although you don’t hear much about it; perhaps because VoIP is so 2004/2005 when everyone thought VoIP was going to conquer the world, and Vonage (VG) was the toast of the town.

So, it’s interesting to see Nortel’s marketing machine start giving VoIP some serious love. Case in point is a press release - jazzed up with several podcasts - that Nortel issued Thursday: “The Future of VoIP: Where Can it Take You?. It talks about how Nortel is the world’s leading carrier VoIP supplier, and how “the the future of VoIP is more than just voice. VoIP is a building block for next-generation networks that include both voice and multimedia to enable innovative communications applications.”

Now, all this may be accurate but the focus on VoIP seems like an abrupt shift in direction after all the focus on “hyperconnectivity” and energy efficiency. Then again, if VoIP is a strength and something Nortel still generates healthy revenue from selling, then maybe it deserves some more TLC.

Comments

[LastHopes:]

As usual very smart comments based on second hand news.
Do you know what is the margin on VoIP?
Do you know how many Mil customers do you need to make profit?
"Nortel still generates healthy revenue from selling" - which product or service?
How could you be so ignorant on the subject and pretend to be a guru on NT?

It is just amazing

LH

2008 Dec 05 12:07 AM

[L'il Jimmy:]

LastHopes, you clearly don't understand the difference between revenue and profit. Here's a helpful link:

investopedia.com

You make no constructive points whatsoever, you just ask some inane questions that had nothing to do with point of the post, which simply was observing some recent emphasis Nortel has been making in marketing its VoIP solutions.

Also, if you think the author of this blog is ignorant and a fraud "guru", what are you doing here reading?

LJ

On Dec 05 12:07 AM LastHopes wrote:

> As usual very smart comments based on second hand news.
> Do you know what is the margin on VoIP?
> Do you know how many Mil customers do you need to make profit?<br/>"Nor...
> still generates healthy revenue from selling" - which product or
> service?
> How could you be so ignorant on the subject and pretend to be a guru
> on NT?
>
> It is just amazing
>
> LH

2008 Dec 05 12:19 PM