Increased performance, decreased costs AND reduced environmental impact

Too good to be true? Not with Nortel.

At Nortel, we don't settle for meeting industry standards, we strive to exceed them. This simple principle is what's led to the development of data products that significantly outperform comparable equipment from our leading competitors. In fact, over the past five years the leading networking equipment vendor's products have cost the business world an estimated $6 billion in unnecessary energy expense?¹ Or to put it another way – companies have saved nearly $460M over the past 5 years by switching to Nortel.Our products have also been validated through independent third-party testing by the Tolly Group and Info-Tech to deliver up to:

7X improved resiliency
20X better performance
50% lower cost of ownership
40% reduced energy consumption²

Reduce your energy costs by 40%
With energy costs soaring—IDC projects an increase from $26 billion in 2007 to $44 billion in 2010 simply to power and cool data centers—reducing energy consumption is crucial. Recent Tolly Group studies showed that Nortel converged data networks use up to 40% less electricity to operate than a comparable competitor's network. At the same time, Info-Tech has found that Nortel's cost of ownership is also as much as 50% lower across LAN and WAN solutions for small, medium and large deployments.

Nortel shows the way
Your business demands high performance, resilient technology. Nortel not only delivers that technology at half the cost of its leading competitors, but also provides products that are more energy efficient, reducing the impact on budget and environment. Find out how Nortel can improve your network performance and lower your energy bills >>

Save time, money, and the environment
Nortel will partner with you to optimize the way your business communicates with our Unified Communications solution. Learn more about Nortel's energy and cost saving portfolios, such as Unified Communications, Telepresence, Contact Center and many more.

Unified Communications
Discover the benefits of Nortel's efficient business approach. We work hard to help you save time, money, and reduce your environmental impact. Uncover your Unified Communications strategy with a candid discussion among CIOs in Unify and Conquer, a CIO2CIO Whitepaper

Why make it hard when you can make it simple.

1. An estimate of energy costs incurred by businesses worldwide using Cisco data/voice network configurations as compared to comparable Nortel data/voice network configurations. The estimate is calculated using Nortel's Energy Efficiency Calculator (NEEC) , which uses vendor shipment data reported by Dell'Oro Group Inc. (to estimate installed Cisco networking components), the published maximum power consumption of components, a national average energy cost and other factors. $6.1B is the estimated additional amount that customers have paid to power their Cisco data networks as compared to a comparable Nortel data network. The NEEC estimated that businesses spent approximately 10,910,750,063.29 in electricity to run their Cisco components for five years. A comparable Nortel configuration would cost only $4,800,544,509.03 over the same period, yielding an estimated savings of $6,110,205,554.26. Nortel used Dell'Oro 2004-07 quarterly shipment data to "define" Cisco's data/voice installed base (subset based on access routers, IP Phones and IP Call Servers and Ethernet modular and fixed switches). Does not include any new units shipped in 2008 – does however amortize/include 8 months of 2008 YTD data from 04-07 being powered this year. Ethernet switch port data was converted to units by dividing modular GE switches by 336, modular FE switches by 384 ports, 10GE switches by 40 ports and fixed switches by 48 ports. The raw unit data was then inputted in the NEEC and evenly distributed across the 8 product categories for analysis and to arrive at the "The Cisco Energy Tax". Analysis based on $.09 / Khw over all years (at 0% inflation) with a 35% scale back from published OEM max watt data. Building/Data Center designs (heat conversion/BTU) is based on the “least efficient” design for both Nortel and Cisco (e.g., – older, existing building vs. brand new ... costing more to cool in BTUs).

2.The Tolly Group Report Number 208298, July 2008, reported the results of a power consumption evaluation of six Nortel converged data network products consisting of large and medium core and wiring closet Ethernet Routing Switches (ERS), enterprise branch office routers, and IP phones compared to similar Cisco products on the basis of power consumption and heat dissipation, and five-year operational cost. See also The Tolly Group report Number 208275, January 2008, and InfoTech Research Group Report, January 30th 2008.