Nortel New I&C general feeling Guys ?

[SL1M1]

Probably the most relevant/best of the rest 'Forum' to ask the question to the many of us Nortel institutionalised

My impression so far is that Nortel CS1000 Customers everywhere are cautious on spending anything on their existing kit certainly from the support side but what's the situation and I guess we all would be interested, to hear from the I&C and Sales side as I'm baffled reading Release 7's on the horizon ?

Cheers!!

 

[johnpoole]

your right about admin staff not wanting to spend money. avaya is playing stupid by not announcing their intent with the nortel line. rls 7 will be out before the end of the year and 7.5 is looking at a list of features that they think will be more marketable.. the lines not slated for eol. with the cs1000, the dms and the bcm holding a massive market share, avaya can continue the line or force that customer data base to look elsewhere.. yes they may end up with some new avaya sells, but forcing me to buy a new switch would make me look closer at mitel, nec or even the pos cisco line..


think about it, if toyota bought ford and shut it down, i wouldn't run out and get a toyota..

john poole
bellsouth business
columbia,sc

 

[dulfo666]

I think we just need to hold out until the 19th of the month when the roadmap gets published. At that point judgments can be made as to Avayas sanity or lack of it.

 

[pbxn]

We're buying a R 6 switch for a new site, but only because it will be part of a 3 site geo redundacy setup. If it wasn't for that, the powers that be, due to Avaya's latency, are leaning heavy on Cisco. We have a few call managers, and I'm sure its not going to stop there.
Thing that gets me is, Avaya, has had to been planning for quite some time, to drag it out almost a month after aquisition, during final budget planning is stupid, for lack of a better turn.
Avaya better have one hell of a analog solution if we're forced to go ALL ip using their product. We won't spend a few hundred on IP phones for patient room phones in a huge hospital campus.

 

[TimAbney]

I'm actually surprised Avaya can come up with a solid plan this early into the purchase. Deciding what lines to keep, what to morph into new products, and what to dump is a big deal for a stabile company let a lone a compan in transition.

We just upgraded our processors, installed a Sig Server and went to 5.5 on the switch, installed CC7 and are inthe process of installing CRQM 6.5

 

[GTexx]

I was fortunate enough to get an early peak at the Avaya road map for the Nortel Line at the following link.

http://event.meetingstream.com/r.htm?e=186944&s=1&k=A7DD661A79D39BC86DD9F3B541FAF838

What was propose by Avaya is that they will continue with the CS 1000 line for at least the next 6 years at the same time developing both Avaya and Nortel equipment to work seamlessly together. So what I got from that is that Nortel Platform and Avaya's platform will play nicely together. we just have to wait and see. They also discuss the Agile communications platform from Nortel and explained how Avaya plans to develop the Agile platform. All and all I If you are buying a CS 1000E system, Avaya is promising to develop and support the platform for at least another 6 years.

 

[xtract]

Thats fairly good time frame