The acquisition of Nortel's half of LG-Nortel by Ericsson could see the company in Australia expanding from small to medium enterprise telephony markets into large enterprise, carriers and possibly vying for NBN Co's PON contracts.
if [ "$PHONE_TYPE" != "NORTEL" ] || [ "$PHONE_TYPE" != "NEC" ] || [ "$PHONE_TYPE" != "CISCO" ]
then
echo "Phone type must be nortel,cisco or nec"
exit
fi
the above code did not work for me so i tried this instead.
if [ "$PHONE_TYPE" == "NORTEL" ] || [ "$PHONE_TYPE" == "NEC" ] || [ "$PHONE_TYPE" == "CISCO" ]
then
:
else
echo "Phone type must be nortel,cisco or nec"
exit
fi
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The Rockstar Consortium is free to proceed with its acquisition of thousands of Nortel patents.
A consortium of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, Research In Motion and Sony has beaten Google to pay $US4.5 billion for more than 6,000 Nortel patents and patent applications spanning wireless, wireless 4G, data networking, optical, voice, internet, service provider, semiconductors and other patents.
Optical networking vendor Ciena - which beat Nokia Siemens in the auction for Nortel's optical networking and carrier ethernet business - has opened an office in Australia, largely using ex Nortel staff.
Nortel is to sell its remaining portfolio of approximately 6000 patents and patent applications to Google for $US900m in cash, subject to the outcome of a court-mandated auction.
Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR) has named Nancy Shemwell, a 20-year industry veteran, to head its global sales efforts, directing the vendor’s sales and channel management teams and eyeing expansion in the cloud, data center, enterprise campus and mobility markets, company officials said.
Shemwell’s background includes a two-year stint as chief executive at Multi-Link, a telecom device maker; Symm
Australian communications systems distributor Aria Technologies has expanded into South Africa by acquiring the exclusive distribution rights to LG-Nortel products from Ericsson.
In the wake of the acquisition of Nortel by Avaya, companies that previously bought products from both companies are now instead looking to Alcatel-Lucent as a second source of products, according to Tom Burns, president, enterprise and strategic industries at Alcatel-Lucent. But Avaya executives understandably disagreed.