Comments on: Gasping for air, Nortel to sell off wireless tech

The deal, under which Nokia Siemens will pay $650 million, is yet another signal that the end is near for the one-time giant in telecommunications gear.

[upuaut]

Nortel is still around?

[theboyr]

From what I'm hearing from another telecom company, Avaya is going to pick up the rest of Nortel soon. They have such an overlapping product in the PBX market, they're going to be so far behind Cisco and Mitel in terms of going towards a more future thinking solution for communications, not just PBXs...

Not to mention Avaya and Nortel both bleed money left and right at the moment.

[lkrupp]

There are tens of thousands of Nortel DMS-100 telephone switches deployed all over North America in the eighties that are still in service. There will be a market for replacement parts and software for the foreseeable future. Somebody will have to pick that part up.

[TV James]

Our VPN and voicemail systems are by Nortel. The sooner Nortel turns out the lights, the better. The VPN shuts down all open processes (including the wireless or cellular connection) while connecting, and well, the voicemail is just evil.