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What is Nortel up to?

Nortel plans to introduce Packet Engine's products in the first half of this year
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What is Nortel up to?

Tim Greene By Tim Greene
In all the bankruptcy noise surrounding Nortel, it's easy to miss that the company has bought up the intellectual property of Identity Engines, whose portfolio adds up to a NAC package. Read full story

Tim Greene is senior editor at Network World.

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Sale of key Nortel assets may be inevitable Nortel may have no choice but to sell off key parts of its business, industry analysts said after reports that the company is in talks with competitors to do just that.

Nortel looking to break apart Executives at industry giant Nortel are shopping pieces of the company to rival vendors, according to a report last night from The Wall Street Journal's online edition.

Report: Nortel seeks to sell off more business units Nortel may sell off more of itself than previously announced, leaving very little as a core business if all the speculated sales go through.

Nortel's bankruptcy: A long time coming Nortel's demise -- punctuated by this week's bankruptcy protection filings -- started long before the accounting scandal of 2004 and the multimillion dollar quarterly losses that the company has piled up since.

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