Thursday, March 29, 2012

Nortel - How They Moved Forward

By Alpha Digital


Nortel Networks started out while in the late 1800s making telefone and switchboard devices in Canada only. As recognition to make the telefone grew radically, so did manufacture and the corporation's recognition.

With the turn of the 20th century, Bell Telephone Company had now turned into Northern Electric Company and had opened a considerably larger producing facility for both telephony solutions and wire and cable. The business then played out a critical role in WW1 supporting and trailblazing its "peanut" vacuum tube product, phenomenally low-priced because of its great design. It was at that point the company diversified to supply whole host of electrical offerings including washers, toasters and kettles.

Just as before the 50's, 60's and 1970's saw modifications in name, possession and course. Nonetheless out of this surfaced Northern Telecom (or Nortel as we now recognise it ) who centered more assertively on fibre optic opportunities , along with the first digital switching devices .

The "Digital World", used as a brave declaration by Nortel truly showcased their objective to assume control in this electrifying and swiftly evolving time. This avowal encapsulated Nortel's aspirations as a market leader for the now worldwide market of personal and public networks .

Nortel Networks did very well across the dot.com boom of the 1990's achieving and absorbing smaller technology organisations who would supplement Nortel's brand . Nortel itself flourished using its optical networking spread of products particularly flying the flag. In precise fact , at its top Nortel Networks accounted individually for a 3rd of the worth of business in the Toronto market.

Sadly, with pretty much every up follows a down. Nortel Networks have endured a turbulent period during the last a decade , as a result of financial mis-management and were then broadly classed as one of the most serious dot.com casualties, at last starting bankruptcy proceedings protection in 2009 . During the last one or two years they later sold numerous their established business markets to the likes of Avaya, Ericsson, Ciena Company and Radware, to name 1 or 2. Sadly enough, its end was sealed when its last major assets (being its approximated 6,000 patents), were eventually provided toward a consortium including Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion, and Sony.

With no regard for all the derangement, politics, and commercial problems the general quality of the products and solutions created were almost never in doubt. So vis a vis quality, Nortel, its offshoots as well as its re-branded products and services remain sought after and honored brands on the market, and need is still high for Nortel products.




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