Nortel releases energy-efficient CS 1000 6.0

Nortel announced Wednesday the availability of version 6.0 of its Communication Server 1000, which it said uses 40 percent less power than competitive models. The company also stressed that the release includes "greater centralization of functions that can further help enterprises to reduce the total cost of ownership of their network solution," a statement even murkier than the telecom equipment giant's future [1].

The new release did add support for the IBM x3350 and Dell R300 rack servers, and said it updated the media gateway and unified communications portions of the offering, though the release was also short details about what exactly is new and improved in this launch.

Kevin Tolly, founder of independent testing company The Tolly Group, said he performed hands-on testing in June with the Nortel CS 1000 6.0 and the Cisco 7835 and found that the Nortel offering used 40 percent less energy. A separate analyst, Jim Sinopoli, an energy-efficiency expert, said "every component of the Nortel configuration is more energy efficient than the comparable Cisco equipment. 

For more:
- see the press release here [2] 

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