Nortel and Cisco are sparring over unified communications at Voicecon in Orlando. Frankly, they are providing the best fireworks at a trade show since Cabletron attacked Cisco at Networld+Interop in the 1990s.
Although Cisco announced new efforts with IBM and Microsoft at today’s event, Nortel promptly took Cisco to task. A Nortel source sent The VAR Guy an email alleging that: