Sales are off sharply this year, but Nortel has valued technology and products. Those assets include next-generation wireless technology built around "long term evolution," or LTE, intellectual property. Light Reading has speculated that Nortel isn't giving up LTE intellectual property rights in the Nokia Siemens deal. In a follow-up report, Light Reading : "Those patents are worth an absolute fortune!" The news service quoted a JP MorganChase analyst Ehud Gelblum as saying royalties from LTE could be worth nearly $3 billion. Meanwhile, to have made a $500 million offer for Nortel's Enterprise Solutions business. Avaya isn't commenting. As all these reports indicate, the Nortel saga is far from over.