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The word on Nortel's energy efficiency advantages for enterprise networks is getting out there, but not soon enough for some. On his Lower (Carbon) Footprint blog, Tom Raftery has this post about his Cisco buyer's remorse. Tom is a co-founder and director of Cork Internet eXchange - a hyper energy-efficient data center in Ireland.
In the blog post, Tom says that one area where they "chose poorly" was with their Cisco switches - as he points to Nortel's energy efficiency figures and says that "the independently verified results are astounding." Sorry we didn't get the word out sooner Tom, but kudos for focusing your data center on energy efficiency and reaping the financial and ecological gains it can bring.
Luckily, others are getting the facts in time. Last week from Interop, Nortel's Tony Rybczynski reported on his blog that an educational institution put a "stop order" on a $2 million Cisco equipment purchase after seeing Nortel's lower energy and TCO figures.
And as this message spreads (here, here, and here), the counter-claims from Cisco have begun as well. No doubt this topic isn't going away anytime soon.
