about 1 month ago - No comments
I use the Nortel/Avaya Mobile USB headset with my laptop and 2050 softphone. On occasion I’ll use it on my 1140E desktop phone and have noticed a humming from time to time. After digging through the net and all my documentation I came up with the following reference in one of the UNIStim release notes.
about 1 month ago - 14 comments
Yes, I still have three Backbone Concentrator Nodes (BCN) hanging around the place, still working just the same as the day they were installed some 13 years ago. We had an issue tonight with a Verizon ATM DS-3 circuit on one of our BCN routers. The issue forced me to take a little nostalgia trip
about 1 month ago - No comments
Avaya has released UNIStim firmware 4.2 for their IP deskphones; 0621C7G for 2007 IP Deskphone 0623C7M for 1110, 0624C7M for 1120E, 0625C7M for 1140E, 0627C7M for 1150E and 0626C7M for 1165E IP Deskphones 0627C7M for 1200 Series IP Deskphones VPN Configuration Wizard release 01.00_00.25 The major change in this software release is the re-branding of
about 2 months ago - 6 comments
Avaya has release an updated technical configuration guide geared towards the interoperability between Cisco and Avaya equipment.The document covers a lot of information including EtherChannel to MLT interoperability, Spanning Tree interoperability, Nortel IP phones connecting to Cisco switches and Cisco IP phones connecting to Nortel switches. It’s definitely well worth the time to review. Cheers!
about 4 months ago - 4 comments
Last week I spent a day up in Basking Ridge, NJ at the Avaya’s global headquarters. The purpose of the visit was to delve deeper into the product roadmap (details man, details!) and talk about the recently announced PASS program that Avaya and it’s voice resellers are implementing on July 1, 2010 regarding voice maintenance
about 5 months ago - 1 comment
Over the past few weeks you may have noticed the Aspect advertisements (see copy left) all over this blog and the discussion forums. This evening I decided to take a look at Aspect’s advertising campaign and fine out what all the excitement was about. Aspect is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, March 9th at 11:00AM
about 6 months ago - No comments
Avaya has released UNIStim 4.1 for their IP phones; 0621C7D for 2007 IP Deskphone, 0623C7J, 0624C7J, 0625C7J, 0627C7J and 0626C7J for 1110, 1120E, 1140E, 1150E and 1165E IP Deskphones respectively and 062AC7J for 1200 Series IP Deskphones UNIStim 4.1 adds the following features; UNIStim 4.0 functionality delivered onto the 1165E IP Deskphone Quality improvements to
about 6 months ago - 1 comment
You’ll recall that back in December 2009 I wrote a post about the upcoming release of 7.0 software the the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. At that time the software was in Controlled Availability (CA) and wasn’t expected to transition to General Availability (GA) until March 2010. It seems that Nortel/Avaya are starting to get their
about 6 months ago - No comments
In case you haven’t heard the Avaya Integrated Avaya-Nortel Roadmap in Philadelphia has been canceled yet again due to the impending snow storm. The event has been rescheduled for Tuesday, March 9th. Who wants to bet that we’ll have yet another snow storm, blizzard even, on March 9th? Cheers! Related posts:Avaya Integrated Avaya-Nortel Roadmap in Philadelphia
about 6 months ago - No comments
In case you haven’t heard the Avaya Integrated Avaya-Nortel Roadmap in Philadelphia has been canceled due to the impending snow storm. The event has been rescheduled for Thursday, February 25th. Cheers! Related posts:Avaya Integrated Avaya-Nortel Roadmap in Philadelphia Postponed Again Avaya/Nortel Enterprise Solutions Integrated Roadmap Avaya/Nortel Integrated Roadmap Keynote Avaya closes acquisition of Nortel Avaya
Let’s see if there will be any announcements concerning Nortel’s Enterprise division come July 1, 2009.
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about 1 year ago
I wouldn’t jump yet… Something doesn’t seem right. I can see that they may try and shave off the “fat” of the company. Yet they aren’t trying to sell like crazy. Something else to think about, they keep releasing alot of code. Something is up…
about 1 year ago
Unfortunately there’s a lot of politics in play for a lot of us… you could say that this was the “proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back”.
In my specific case I have a large data center move where I really can’t recommend Nortel given the their current situation, especially for a six digit purchase. I’ve had to look at Juniper, HP, Brocade and Cisco for a solution. While each of them has their strengths and weaknesses it’s a large undertaking to sort it all out and get apples to apples designs. I will say that I’m impressed with the Cisco Nexus 7010. I’m also amazed to see Cisco finally getting away from Spanning Tree with their Virtual Port Channel feature. I’m still amazed how far the industry was behind Nortel on this one… again a shame Nortel wasn’t able to fully market the possibilities to the masses.
I understand from some folks that Nortel is really focusing on “fine tuning” the software in their products, trying to use this period to build on the stability of each product. I’m not sure if that means that product development from a hardware perspective is on hold but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that. I know Nortel has been working on the VSP9000 for quite sometime now but you’ve got to wonder how much R&D is going on at this point.
There was even an article suggesting that Nortel was starting to cut the ties with Microsoft’s Unified Communications partnership.
Regardless of what happens we have a LOT of Nortel gear that will be here for years and years to come.
Thanks for the comment!
about 1 year ago
stuff starts getting done when your job is on the line! Strangely the same happened with the Nortel TPS products that run Sourcefire. No updates for weeks/months. Then they announce MD/EOL of the product line and now updates come out every week or two, if not more!
I hope something good comes of it though. I have two horses in this race. I’m employed by a prof services company and our primary vendor is Nortel (mostly data though, which is probably better for us if Avaya buys it, Data should be safe). And my father is a sales guy at Nortel (who is still selling, thankfully most of our customers are still loyal to us and Nortel!)
about 1 year ago
Very interesting… someone was telling me not to long ago that the riffraff had all but left (jumped ship) leaving only their best engineers and software developers.
I’ve always been impressed by Snort even years ago when it was in it’s infancy. It is amazing to see how far Snort has come and what Martin Roesch has made of it. I’ll probably be looking hard at Sourcefire in a few months time as I look to replace an aging IBM ISS Site Protector installation.
I certainly hope things pan out for yourself and all the other Nortel employees who I’ve had the pleasure of working with and/or meeting in person.
Thanks for the comment!
about 1 year ago
Will the fun never stop?
The rumor mill today is that Avaya has walked away from the table and the folks at Nortel are curious if Avaya ever had any real interest in making a purchase. When will it end I ask you all… with FTC approval out of the way all bids for the Nortel wireless division need to be submitted by July 21st with the auction set for July 24th. Once the wireless division is sold I would guess that we’ll see something happen with the enterprise division.
Cheers!
about 1 year ago
It seems that RIM is crying fowl in the bidding process for the wireless division.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072109-rim-shut-out-of-nortel.html
Let the saga continue!