# Nortel: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/nortel

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Business phone systems](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/business-phone-systems/index.md) | 0% | 78 | 100% | 2 |

## And against it

- "avoid older proprietary hardware that manufacturers have marked as "End of Life." ... Older Nortel" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, Business phones)
- "Legacy On-Premises PBX Hardware (e.g., Avaya IP Office, Nortel, Legacy Panasonic)" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Business phones)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Nortel, from 3 of the 5 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- anovia.com: 1
- aumne.ai: 1
- business.usnews.com: 1
- capterra.com: 1
- cisco.com: 1
- continuant.com: 1
- fdic.gov: 1
- fidelity-group.co.uk: 1
- gartner.com: 1
- govinfo.gov: 1

### Pages cited

- https://anovia.com/blog/avaya-support-ending-what-to-do-next: 1
- https://aumne.ai/blog/avaya-end-of-life-migration-guide: 1
- https://business.usnews.com/business-phone-systems/best-business-phone-systems: 1
- https://capterra.com/telephony-software: 1
- https://cisco.com/c/en/us/support/unified-communications/retired.html: 1
- https://cisco.com/site/us/en/learn/topics/small-business/tips-ip-phone-security.html: 1
- https://continuant.com/blog/the-pbx-a-system-in-use-but-out-of-time: 1
- https://fdic.gov/news/financial-institution-letters/2005/fil6905a.html: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.