Some background about the Centillion series, the company and the
product development from our view.
This will be one of the most interesting pages of this web
working with superiour Bay Networks and Nortel switching products. During our research in
the internet for any hints and tricks to get a MCP working again, I found a lot of
documentation from earlier law suites against the Bay Network company and some bosses from
the management, when the merger 1994 from wellfleet and synoptics to Bay Networks has
happened.Then I did get in contact with people from older Bay Germany operations,
listening to their stories what happened during their Bay time.
Inside the web based documents, there we did find a lot af explanations about the
problems inside the new company, pressing out a new product "in time" or loosing
a complete market.
When we did buy lowcost C100 Ethernet boards in the US, there was a production date
from "week 02 in year 2000" on a "10 MBit RJ45 - 16 port Ethernet"
printed on the lable.
That means, when 98% of all suppliers of Network equipment did stop production of 10
MBit in 1998, Nortel did continue production of unsellable boards. I got 5 of them, brand
new ones, for 95.- dollars !! all five.
Reading all these documents, i found a lot of information about that period of dreams
to take over a market, unreal plans and at the end beeing a looser with really good
products. Here you see one of my intentions, to work on this web.
What i have seen as products was excellent. May be the sales people could not
handle that or they have been late on the market.
