Nortel Buzzboard

Yesterday I highlighted the availability of the new online interactive Nortel Energy Efficiency Calculator (iNEEC). The other part of the news in yesterday’s press release was to show that enterprise customers were increasingly considering product energy efficiency when making their network purchase decisions.

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, that may seem like old news since Nortel has been claiming this since Interop. But yesterday’s release provides actual customer and channel partner affirmation that energy efficiency really is top-of-mind.

For example, Sean O’Hara, manager of Systems Engineering at Prairie Cardiovascular said, “Not only were we able to achieve a highly redundant network core, we realized a significant savings of both power and heat-generation by using Nortel’s ERS line of switches. We used the Nortel Energy Efficiency Calculator and found we could save thousands of dollars over competing approaches over five years using Nortel’s energy efficient products in our data and communications centers.”

Channel partner Ronco Communications and Electronics is also seeing the change, says John Wrona: “Energy efficiency is top of mind among many customers, and the ability to chart their energy needs now is an extremely important consideration for purchasing decisions.”

How much will energy efficiency influence your next network purchase decision? Have you used the new iNEEC, and if so, what do you think of the results?