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Archive for August 5th, 2008

Here’s your $123,904 Cisco energy tax rebate check

Nortel has added a new dynamic to the ongoing battle against the Cisco Energy Tax…

Cold, hard cash.

Today Nortel unveiled a new program that gives new Nortel enterprise data customers an up-front credit of their estimated first-year energy savings over a comparable Cisco network. Normally I don’t get into sales promotions on this Nortel blog, but this program is so unique I couldn’t ignore it.

Earlier this year, I talked about how the Cisco energy tax isn’t about “green”, it’s about money. And while saving 40% on your network’s total energy bill goes straight to the company’s bottom line, many IT departments don’t even see the energy bill, let alone care about it.

This new program eliminates any …

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