Nortel

What’s up with Google’s $900M dash for Nortel’s patents?

Just when you thought the buzzards had stopped circling around what's left of Nortel's remains, the bankrupt data networking and communications giant announced Monday that

Ciena OK’d for Nortel optical/CE biz, judges tell NSN ‘too little, too late’

So far, the bankruptcy court proceedings for auctioning off Nortel's assets have been lacking some good old-fashioned courtroom drama for us in the peanut gallery. Competitor A puts in bid, Competitor B drives it up, someone wins, courts say OK, everyone goes home and puts out press release...

Good MEN are hard to find: Ciena to pay $769M for Nortel’s CE/optical biz

From stalking horse to ponying up more than three quarters of a million bucks, Ciena will be taking home most of

Nortel loses another arm as Hitachi steps in for LTE bits

Continuing its bankruptcy-ignited fire sale, Nortel announced that it has struck a deal with Tokyo-based electronics heavyweight Hitachi to part with a piece of its Long-Term Evolution...

Ripped from the (Twitter) headlines: Ciena eyes Nortel optical/Carrier Ethernet biz

Ciena Corporation, a Maryland-based telecom equipment vendor, is chatting up bankrupt Nortel for its Optical Networking and Carrier Ethernet businesses, Nortel officials tweeted this afternoon.

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RIM’s Nortel interest adds more drama to ‘final’ bid

Why on earth would RIM want Nortel? That was the question on everyone's minds after the handset manufacturer announced it had not only tried to enter bidding for the distressed Nortel's LTE and CDMA...

Breaking: Ericsson bids $730mm for Nortel’s CDMA, LTE assets

Ericsson has finally entered the Nortel fray, announcing their starting bid at $730 million for bankrupt vendor's LTE and CDMA asset a day before the official auction is held. It will now be (at least) a three-horse race between Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), private equity firm MatlinPatterson and...

Nortel wireless fire sale delivers North American footprint to NSN

Nortel’s wireless carrier network infrastructure division may bring in a paltry $650 million if the Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) deal goes through. By all accounts, NSN -- the joint venture of...

More LTE vendors join the 4G party (but no cake for Nortel!)

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/kWp-Rj5o9uA" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Lately, 4G is starting to seem like (relatively) easy money for everyone ... or rather, everyone but poor, beleaguered Nortel, which is starting to remind me of Milton from...

Telecom Timeout: Video investments

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/7CrE9CC3saM" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Telecom Timeout: Video Investments covers the latest on Nortel's application delivery business sale to Radware, Cisco's lay offs, a continued evaluation of...