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When will it end?

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June 29, 2009
by Michael McNamara in

nortel_globemark_blueLet’s see if there will be any announcements concerning Nortel’s Enterprise division come July 1, 2009.

It certainly seems that Nortel is literally done as all talk of restructuring their debt and emerging from bankruptcy have evaporated and the “everything must go” chant is flying about everywhere.

While it sounds like Nortel’s CDMA business and LTE R&D unit will go to Nokia Siemens pending the completion of the “stalking horse” deal, the jury is still out on Nortel’s Enterprise business although the rumors all point to Avaya as the front runner. If that comes to fruition it will be interesting to see how Avaya plans to transition existing customers away from legacy Nortel products to Avaya products. Or how long they will support the legacy Nortel software and/or equipment before they sunset it.

Is it time to jump ship yet… you might want to check that you have enough lifeboats.

Cheers!

Nortel ERS 5000 Software 6.0.4 Available

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June 18, 2009
by Michael McNamara in ,

You’d never guess that Nortel is in bankruptcy with all the software releases that keep flying off the shelves.

Nortel has released software 6.0.4 for the Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 series switches. The new “Health Monitor” features are designed to improve the stability of multiple switches running in a stack configuration. I also noticed that one problem reported here on this blog by a vistor has been resolved;

  • Static Route was lost upon reboot (Q01986043)

You can find the release notes at the Nortel website.

Cheers!

Nortel ERS 5500 Software 6.1 Available

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June 5, 2009
by Michael McNamara in ,

Nortel has released software 6.1for the Ethernet Routing Switch 5500/5600 series. Nortel has also released Java Device Manager 6.20 which provides support for managing switches running the newly released software.

There are a few features that I believe will be worth the effort to upgrade;

  • IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) licensing
    IP Flow Information Export functionality is now part of the base functionality of the Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 Series. A separate license for this functionality is no longer necessary.
  • Stack forced mode
    When you enable this feature in a stack of two switches, on the failure of a unit, the remaining switch retains the stack IP address ensuring continued management access to the remaining unit. When Stack Forced Mode is enabled if the base unit remains, then AUR, AAUR and DAUR ensures that when a replacement unit is added to the base unit it is correctly provisioned.

There are also a large number of bug fixes which I really won’t go into here. One note of caution, you’ll need to be running software release 6.0 in order to upgrade to software release 6.1, you’ll also need to upgrade the diagnostic agent.

You can find the complete release notes on Nortel’s website.

Cheers!

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