[interoperability]
hi 9r and all,
one of the interesting sidenotes from the last cc was the discussion of interoperability... tamir mentioned that orctf/(fujitsu) is "actually doing it" with "some of the venders"...
thought the comment about how "interoperability" was more of a "system" issue than just a "modem" issue was quite interesting... and possibly significant..
these comments would seem to imply that orctf/(fujitsu) is working with at least some of the systems co's for adsl interoperability.. and would think the potential short list of candidates could be alcatel,and/or cisco, and/or lucent... (on the other hand it may be some much less entertaining names)
alcatel, because fujitsu and alcatel right now hold major market share both in the us and europe... where telco's will be looking for two vendors... probably in the interests of both to share (and therefore hang onto the lions share of the market) rather than get bumped by others (or something like that)... also each is probably feeling pressure from such customers for interoperability... case in point at the top of the list: bel/gte.. btw in cc: the count of gte central offices which have fujitsu/orctf adsl installed will be "probably going .. up to 700 co's in the near future" from the current 300 co's..
cisco, for two reasons: first, last news they possibly were working with alcatel silcion for dmt and if alcatel and fujitsu work thru the interoperability issues, would think cisco could be close... (motivation: same reasons as ala above)... and secondly cisco and fujitsu are on record in 98 as signing a global systems integrator agreement where they agreed to cooperate, "in securing interoperability between both companies' network management software. And they will investigate directions for future collaboration, including closer links between products; cooperation in networking and multimedia technology; the expansion of networked computing; and the formulation of standards."
lastly think lu is a possibility/probability because orctf has a sales and marketing agreement with them now for adsl for europe, the middle east and africa... where lu will be offering orctf adsl product to their customers as part of an end to end solution using "Lucent's access products in order to provide end-to-end ADSL solutions for service providers. The combined offerings will also complement Lucent's data networking products, such as its ATM edge switch, Multiservice Switch
1000 (MX 1000(TM)) and the PortMaster(R) 4 remote access server...." would think this strongly implies that orctf product has been integrated into lu's systems... would not think it would take too much to get from integration to interoperability..
if anyone out there has heard who fujitsu might be working with for interoperability would be very interested to hear anything either thru post, private messages or email...
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from ?'s from jan orctf cc:
"?: in regard to the recent alliance between wstl and alcatel... i wanted to ask you what your thoughts are with regards to the actual interoperability issue in dmt and g.lite as we go forward? there had been talk that the jpc may be looking for a second vendor.. do you feel that a company like orckit can leverage that business and yet not be interoperable with alcatel... in other words get both ends of the line... and do you think this is going to be happening quite soon or do you think that the issue of interoperability may impact your ability to get into the jpc.. business in the short term?
answer: i think it is a very good question, the issue of interoperability is not as simple as people think it is... our main advantage is that unlike companies that don't have control of their chipset, we can adapt the chipset to make it workable with other venders... we are actually doing it with some of the venders... and we are in a very good position to do it.. the real interoperability is more than the interoperability of the modem it is the interoperability of the whole system... the only time that you achieve it is when you win an account and then the account force you to do it... let me give you an example ... in the hdsl as you know there is no interoperability between venders... but in dt telecom account we are the #1 supplier of the hdsl... there is a german company which is the #2 supplier... quanta(?)... we were forced by dt to do an interoperability and we achieved it quite easy.. because we are much more flexible than the others... so technically there is no problem to orckit at all... the other way around ... orckit is in the greatest position to do interoperability with other venders... we are actually doing it ... unlike some of our competitors we don't put a press release of any interoperabilities that we are doing but we are very active in the (missed word) committees and are doing it with some of the companies... "
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best wishes
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