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Most of that gear was likely bay networks kit, which was actually acquired by Nortel. I don’t disagree that it was crap, but it was cheaper than Cisco. I grew
by hylaride 6y ago
Most of that gear was likely bay networks kit, which was actually acquired by Nortel. I don’t disagree that it was crap, but it was cheaper than Cisco.
I grew up in the Ottawa area in the 1990s and my parents were in the tech scene there; the Copelands were rich and eccentric (and odd), but that’s no different than Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, or Steve Jobs.
My point isn’t that Nortel didn’t put out shit products, every large successful company has. It’s that Nortel was more than a crappy router company.
- kjs3 6y agoThe Bay Network switches were pretty good, actually. Well, not so much the Centillion...but the Baystacks were ok. It was the routers that they got from Wellfleet through the Bay acquisition that were wildly out of date with the worst management software ever written (Site Manager). They were still trying to push BCN/ARNs after everyone else (least of all Cisco) had introduced 3-4 new generations. And Site Manager was awful...seriously. Err...eccentric and odd mean the same thing.