Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Current Analysis Inc.
Published: June 2007
Product Code: R759-6566Description While Nortel can claim an impressive optical legacy and extensive customer base, the LH 1600 platform is showing its age compared to competing products that offer longer distance capabilities, fully flexible OADM capabilities, and 40G support. This report contains insight and analysis of the product or service strengths and weaknesses, list of buying criteria and how the product or service fares in each category, and a comprehensive table of product or service metrics and specifications. This report is useful for purchasers who need to evaluate products, or as a source of competitive intelligence for vendors.
Table of Contents - Current Perspective
- Analytical overview of the product's position with the market. Includes a Current Analysis competitive rating for the product ranging from Very Threatening, describing a product that is likely to make significant gains in market share because of its technology, features, functionality, and/or market presence; to Vulnerable, for products that are like to see decrease in market share due to competitive threats.
- Strengths Strengths & Weaknesses Weaknesses
- Objective analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the product, with respect to competitors and alternative solutions. Covers key areas that are cited as downsides to the product when positioned against competitors, and key areas that are used as differentiators when selling the product. Provides the reader with an unbiased view of the product.
- Buying Criteria
- Analysis of how well the product meets the customer's most important specifications, including: performance, price, functionality, availability, deployment and more. This section is helpful in situations where the reader needs to put together an RFI or RFP to compare competing products.
- Product Metrics
- Updated regularly, product metrics provide the most recent relevant information and specifications for a product. Also useful for RFP and RFI purposes.
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