In the enterprise router market, Cisco Systems is still the technology of choice but Juniper Networks is coming on fast. A poll by Infonetics Research shows Cisco leads in every category - except on price and value. Cisco still tops the short list for future router purchases but Juniper is now second as it scores points for value - putting it ahead of Nortel, 3Com, Enterasys and Adtran. From a Nortel perspective, the big challenge is closing the huge market share gap with Cisco. While Nortel CEO Bill Owens has talked about the company putting more strategic focus on the enterprise market to give customers an alternative to Cisco, how does he intend to do it? What role, for example, do acquisitions play? Does Nortel buy Enterasys Networks ($250 million market cap), for example, or hope that its much-vaunted but still-to-be-released Neptune router is able to save the day?