Nortel Buzzboard

With all the noise that Nortel has been making around energy efficiency, it’s inevitable that the investigative reporter inside some in the media would start to dig into the fact vs fiction of some of our claims.

One of those is Jason Hiner, who runs a blog on TechRepublic aptly named “Tech Sanity Check.”  Today he has a detailed post here on the reality of some of the energy efficiency claims that Nortel has aggressively pushed in the last month.  It’s a great post and well worth the five minutes to read it.

As part of his due diligence, Jason talked to Mark Fabbi of Gartner Group.  Among other insights, Mark commented that “There clearly are differences between vendors and it appears as if Nortel has valid claims and differentiation for at least some of their product areas.”  Mark also commented on Cisco’s deteriorating market share, and how “organizations are starting to question their automatic loyalty to Cisco.”

Again, you can read the blog post here.

UPDATED: Figured while I was at it that I’d also post links to several other blogs and articles that have been covering this story over the last few days:

• In the WSJ blog there is this post discussing the confusion that various vendor energy efficiency claims can create
• Mark Evans highlights Nortel’s recent green push (and links to a video) in this post on All About Nortel
• In Greenmonk, Tom Raftery mistook one of our Cisco Energy Tax web pages as the Nortel Energy Efficiency Calculator, which has created quite a conversation in the comments section.
• Environmental Leader has this article talking about Nortel’s new Cisco Energy Tax ad campaign
• Reseller news in New Zealand has this article on the vendor battle for green mindshare.