Comments on: Nortel buys Open Source IP PBX company Pingtel

By: Graves On SOHO Technology » Nortel Acquires Pingtel

Graves On SOHO Technology » Nortel Acquires Pingtel — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:33:03 +0000

[...] to some, like here, this is a really big deal. Frankly, I don’t see [...]

By: Gavin Henry

Gavin Henry — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:38:50 +0000

Shame they are now going bust :-(

By: goodLuckWithThat

goodLuckWithThat — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:24:31 +0000

I don’t see how Nortel of all companies would have such a radical change in their business strategy. That would be the equivalent of the old Hollywood story “hooker with a heart of gold.”

It wouldn’t surprise me one bit to see the whole project disappear into Nortel and never see it again.

By: Chris Barron

Chris Barron — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:46:12 +0000

I must agree with the last couple of contributors. I am puzzled about Nortel’s objectives. Historically, of all the PBX manufacturers, Nortel have been the most proprietary.
This time last year I reviewed in depth their newest CS1K product release and found it extremely wanting as far as SIP was concerned. Yes, the CS2K is SIP but the previous CS1K release needed bolt on units from the BCM range, Nortel seemed more than 2 years behind Cisco and Siemens-and their white papers on SIP could demonstrate no meat, so maybe buying in Pingel is part of a move to leapfrog their development pipeline, or so they hoped.

By: Dubai real estate portal

Dubai real estate portal — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:07:03 +0000

We were very excited when Bluesocket purchased Pingtel back in 2007. Finally a WiFi player with a vision to integrate WiFi with applications such as VoIP and mobility.

However, the 12 month marriage was characterized by gross mismanagement. Proper channel introduction never happened. The CEO, M. Lillelund, promised things he never kept. Rumors started to spread about a disfunctional management team. The company apparently was put up for sale over a year ago with no result. Negotiations with Enterasys broke down. A Virtual WLAN (vWLAN) strategy was announced but not executed. And then the entire management team quit with only the CEO left behind.

I wonder why the investors cannot see the obvious. A company most often dies from the top and at this point it must be concluded that hiring Mr Lillelund was not a good move for the company.

By: Graves On SOHO VoIP » Nortel Acquires Pingtel

Graves On SOHO VoIP » Nortel Acquires Pingtel — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:34:35 +0000

[...] to some, like here, this is a really big deal. Frankly, I don’t see [...]

By: Iven

Iven — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:16:06 +0000

Thanks. Good news. I'll become your regular visitor and RSS subscriber.

By: Anthony Minessale

Anthony Minessale — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:43:26 +0000

Since SIPfoundry announced it’s integration of FreeSWITCH into sipXecs just a few weeks sooner, I guess they knew what was coming.

http://www.sipfoundry.org/component/option,com_ezine/Itemid,82/task,read/page,1/category,featured/article,78/

It was certainly news to me!