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The Lines Are Drawn: Nortel Vs. Cisco

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Overview Clear lines are now drawn, which distinguish fundamental differences in how Nortel and Cisco are approaching the current and future needs of enterprises. Upon inspection of the two competing approaches towards desktop integration, application development, real-time application support and network architecture, it becomes evident that Cisco continues to advocate monolithic network-centric solutions, while Nortel embraces open software-centric solutions that deliver simplification, performance, agility and reliability.

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Publisher	Nortel Networks	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Software Engineering

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Channel:
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ip

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Channel:
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