(Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario) Once a world leader in telecommunications products, Nortel filed for bankruptcy in 2009 and sold its CDMA business and LTE assets to Ericsson and its ...

With its new programs and product offerings, Nortel is trying to simplify the way it does business with partners, said Net Payne, vice president of North American enterprise marketing at Nortel.

One was wireless, for which Abbott said Avaya would be phasing out Nortel's five-year-old OEM agreement with Trapeze Networks. "We want to bring our own products to market going forward," Abbott said.