As a kid I had the amazing opportunity to see Nortel first hand and I remember how excited I was, how the corporate environment and the deep/rich nerd culture operated; it was aspirational to have the idea of my name on a Nortel cheque and a life-goal in itself.

It turned out that having paper backed by Nortel wasn't the winning bet, after all.

I have really deepfeels about it all.

CHINA IS ASSHOE

Poor Nortel. Gets an AMERICAN Ceo, IP vanishes, wastes 2 billion buying Faulteon. Reward themselves with Yuge bonuses. Cisco and Huawei get all the Labs, results and conclusions, for micro pennies.