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Nortel Wins ATM Deal with Telia
By Joe McGarvey, Inter@ctive Week
September 9, 1999 10:53 AM ET
Is this announcment an additional new contract or a repeat of the original release from the CSCO failure?
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Telia AB scrapped CSCO contract:
Sep. 03, 1999 (LTH - CMP via COMTEX) -- Building an
integrated, multiservice network is easier said than
done. Just ask frustrated executives at Telia AB
(Stockholm), which last month scrapped a hard-won
and highly publicized contract with Cisco Systems Inc.
(San Jose, Calif.) for equipment and services.
Despite considerable effort, Cisco has not been able to
supply a multiservice asynchronous transfer mode
(ATM) and Internet protocol (IP) network to Telia as
specified in a contract signed in February. Telia had
hoped to deploy its integrated network by January
2000. Instead, Telia is going back to the drawing
board, forgoing the new network to simply upgrade its
X.25/frame relay network with equipment supplied by
Nortel Networks Inc., in order to meet increasing
traffic demands, says Marianne Nivert, the executive
in charge of Telia Network S
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