Given that Nortel is now basically a defunct company can anyone explain why you would go ahead with purchasing equipment from them. If it’s enterprise VoiP you want surely it would make more sense to switch to Cisco or Avaya. When the Avaya purchase is complete does it make sense for them to maintain Nortel’s Equipment? Highly unlikely. Forklift upgrade path to their equipment.
Why then are we purchasing an deploying Millions of dollars of Nortel equipment? As if this wasn’t a predictable outcome even six months ago. The question was asked but because no one listens to Architecture (that’s another blog post) the Telephony folks went ahead. Politics, job insecurity, lack of foresite, blind faith in a vendor, all of these and more.
Dumb, dumb, dumb. Total waste of money and time. Nobody gets fired for buying…IBM, Nortel, Cisco…um time to reconsider.
Nortel is DEAD people move on.
