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The elusive, mysterious Nortel Energy Efficiency Calculator. Where is this thing?

It’s almost like the “Economic Stimulus” checks in the U.S. that the IRS is supposed to be sending — we’ve all heard a lot about them and it sounds great, but has anyone actually seen one? And so it is with this Nortel Energy Efficiency Calculator (or the NEEC as us Nortelians like to call it). Sounds great, but let’s see it already.

The NEEC first peeked its head into public view in March at VoiceCon, where it was briefly mentioned in this release. It was also on the Nortel booth, and No Jitter had this post after seeing it first-hand. The NEEC then had a starring role on the Nortel booth at Interop, where it was used to help enterprises “Calculate your Cisco Energy Tax.” But unless you were at the show you didn’t see it.

Then last week Nortel unveiled a tax relief plan of its own, which included this new web page that had a slick, but not-so-functional “calculator.”

Oh the confusion! Some thought this was the NEEC. Were we really basing our campaign on such a simplistic model? Was this simple pull-down menu the much hyped Calculator?

No it isn’t.

The actual NEEC allows for over 30 user inputs, contains detailed individual energy usage for hundreds of Nortel and Cisco product variations, and can calculate energy costs based on cost-per-Kilowatt-hour for every state in the U.S. and multiple countries in Europe and Asia.

Or so they say. I mean, who’s actually seen this thing right?  You can call your Nortel sales rep to get it, but apparently it’s quite a task taking a tool like this and turning it into a fully interactive web page - which is why that’s going to take another month or so. What do we do until then to show people that it really is possible to accurately measure how much money (and carbon emissions) a business can save by choosing Nortel?

And then today I was surfing around the Web and low and behold there it was, a full video screen capture of the NEEC complete with a nice narration of the features. Right there on YouTube, and on the Nortel YouTube channel that I personally maintain no less. And now I have it for you to see below.

Mystery solved. Now off to check the mail for that elusive economic stimulus check.