Commentary on a slow death

mrnoodle · 03-10-2004, 08:19 PM

Until recently, I worked at the company that manufactures boards for Lucent, Avaya, Alcatel, and others. The R&D is lackluster, to say the least. We maybe ran one proto board every 5 months. Of course, they probably had more than one shop doing it, but..

I can tell you one thing, knowing the shitty QA that happens at (company I worked for), I wouldn't run my network on a Lucent or Avaya system. Alcatel is a bit better, but not by much.

Lucent sent some jack-booted thugs to stand over the manufacturing people recently when a customer opened up their spanking new system to find that someone had left a Doritos bag in the package. Lucent pays manufacturers BIG MONEY to operate an ESD-safe, world-class-manufacturing type shop. Finding a bag of chips with the product is.....um.....bad.

03-10-2004, 08:19 PM	#6
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	Until recently, I worked at the company that manufactures boards for Lucent, Avaya, Alcatel, and others. The R&D is lackluster, to say the least. We maybe ran one proto board every 5 months. Of course, they probably had more than one shop doing it, but.. I can tell you one thing, knowing the shitty QA that happens at (company I worked for), I wouldn't run my network on a Lucent or Avaya system. Alcatel is a bit better, but not by much. Lucent sent some jack-booted thugs to stand over the manufacturing people recently when a customer opened up their spanking new system to find that someone had left a Doritos bag in the package. Lucent pays manufacturers BIG MONEY to operate an ESD-safe, world-class-manufacturing type shop. Finding a bag of chips with the product is.....um.....bad.

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