Brian Harrison

Nortel News: Rethinking Bay Networks Acquisition, Delisting Threat

"""The problem for Nortel is that its bread and butter products are ones used for building voice networks. Over the past decade phone companies have moved away from building networks exclusively used for voice toward converged networks that carry voice, data, and video using Internet technology."""""

This might have been 12 years ago but Nortel's Bread and Butter is Optical Transmission Network ie voice, data, and video using Internet technology. The problem is that there is so many new supplies ie Transmux Ciena and so on. Nortel instead of scaling down and making new products that were more compact like ciena they kept going with making 40G cards rather than focusing on DWDM and gbe what they all ready had. They got stuck in the past! Big isnt always better.