Sorry, I was being a bit too sarcastic for plain text. All the exfiltrated IP went to Huawei, which rose to global preeminence 5 or so years later, while Nortel was imploding (mostly decay of a complacent giant, as others have pointed out.)

Fair enough!

From my understanding the technology was stolen and produced/sold cheaper by Huawei undercutting Nortel and putting them out of business.