By Bo Gowan
6 June 2008
5:14 pm EDT
The big news that came out yesterday from Verizon is that VZW is buying Alltel in a deal valued at $28.1 billion. But completely crushed underneath the weight of that big news was another announcement that Verizon made yesterday. While it didn’t have the glamor of a multi-billion dollar acquisition, Verizon’s other release should be of interest to this blog’s readers, as well as the equipment vendors that sell to Verizon.
Yesterday, Verizon announced that it had provided the manufacturers of certain equipment a “target” for getting 20 percent greater efficiency than today’s gear does by January 1, 2009.
For those of you without a calendar, that’s just over 6 months away.
To do this, Verizon said that it …
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By Bo Gowan
6 June 2008
1:45 pm EDT
Nortel MCS 5100 users now interoperates with the Polycom RPX HD 200 seriesOne item I’ve neglected to cover as part of all the happenings at Global Connect this week is the wave of Nortel partner* announcements that were issued this week.
Since these items were issued from the partners and not posted on the press releases page on nortel.com, they are sometimes easily missed even if you cover Nortel closely.
So here’s a quick summary, along with some links to the actual partner releases:
Polycom, an existing Nortel Telepresence partner, announced that its RMX 2000 real-time media conferencing platform and HDX series of high …
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By Bo Gowan
6 June 2008
8:30 am EDT
Earlier this week Joel Hackney, Nortel’s president of Enterprise Solutions, gave some early thoughts on Global Connect. With the event over, Joel had a few parting thoughts on the event. Here is his guest post:
[Note - when I originally posted this last night, I accidentally “back-dated” it to yesterday morning. I have since corrected it so this morning so it will show up at the top of the blog posting list]
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Joel Hackney, Nortel President of Enterprise SolutionsI wanted to take this opportunity to share a few closing thoughts on Global Connect. Bo has done a fantastic job keeping readers up to speed on what’s going on at …
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