Nortel Buzzboard

Nortel has been giving out some hardware recently — hardware in the form of trophies and plaques that is.  Today in Richardson, TX, Nortel gave out several awards to top performing suppliers for 2007 at the 12th annual Nortel Supplier Forum.

The winners were:

Diversity Supplier of the Year - Telamon-Corp, Inc.
Innovation for Services Supplier - Ledefyl
Innovation for Technology Supplier - JDSU
Quality & Service - Services Supplier - Manning Global
Quality & Service - Technology - Spansion
Supplier of the Year - Renesas
Supplier Representative of the Year - Joanne Maio, BellMicro

Additionally, this press release came out from Nortel distributor WestconGroup, highlighting that James Turner, a member of the Westcon Convergence UK sales team, has been recognized by Nortel as “Best Distributor …

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The word on Nortel’s energy efficiency advantages for enterprise networks is getting out there, but not soon enough for some.  On his Lower (Carbon) Footprint blog, Tom Raftery has this post about his Cisco buyer’s remorse.  Tom is a co-founder and director of Cork Internet eXchange - a hyper energy-efficient data center in Ireland.

In the blog post, Tom says that one area where they “chose poorly” was with their Cisco switches - as he points to Nortel’s energy efficiency figures and says that “the independently verified results are astounding.”  Sorry we didn’t get the word out sooner Tom, but kudos for focusing your data center on energy efficiency and reaping the …

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