Article: United Kingdom: Cisco ousts Nortel from Olympics deal.

Byline: datta003

Nortel has been stripped of Official Network Infrastructure Partner status for the London 2012 Olympics, due to fears that its impending break-up will prevent it from delivering a full service.

Rubbing salt in the wound, the infrastructure contract has now been awarded to arch-rival Cisco.

The Olympics organising committee LOCOG stressed that the split was amicable .

London 2012 chief executive Paul Deighton said: We part with Nortel on good terms. Nortel acknowledges our fixed deadlines and our desire to have a single supplier for our entire network infrastructure has been ...

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