A couple of days ago I explained how cynicism and regret are valuable thinking processes for a Network Designer. The long foreseen failure and subsequent breakup of Nortel presents a opportunity to look back with regret and learn cynical lessons for the future.
Blessay: Lessons to Be Learned From Nortel’s Death Throes
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Why Didn’t Nortel Do Better ? Cisco Wasn’t Always the Top Dog.
In response to Omar Sultan at Cisco on ‘Why you want this switch ?’ . In my view, Cisco IOS was buggy,slow and the hardware product was a poor design, but Nortel got the usability and technical support very wrong. Customers chose Cisco anyway because the Cisco TAC made the problems not seem so bad.




