[msft etc]
hi ray,
as far as bt is concerned, it would be interesting to know how far back wstl and fujitsu go in the uk ... probably at least to wstl's glory days in 96 prior to the jpc announcement... interesting that soon thereafter fujitsu and orct teamed up... it would seem plausible that fujitsu would have at least considered wstl for that relationship... also believe that bt is planning on rolling out 100% dmt, which would seem to make the case for orct that much stronger
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and i did see the dynamic microfilter announcement... from the wording of yesterday's supercomm press release it sounds like we are about to hear more: "unveiling" and all that... it should be interesting to see how orct plays this one.... my guess is that the dynamic angle will turn out to be a clever, but relatively straightforward solution which will do more to enhance orct's reputation than bottom line..
on rereading yesterday's press release, noticed that "Dynamic Service Selection" was trademarked... am guessing ™ by orct.. checked the fujitsu and redback sites and neither seem to use that exact phrase.. my guess is that we are seeing the first mention of new functionality which has been/is being added to next generation orct dslams including user configuration and management of the data streams etc...
also can't help wondering about the orct/msft relationship... how long? where? extent?... when fujitsu/orct took over the msft gte adsl trials about a year ago, dug around looking for angles on such a potential relationship... found some interesting possibilities, but no hard evidence... seemed that should there be a connection, it would probably be thru fujitsu... but now that we're there, am surprised that fujitsu isn't sharing in this "state-of-the-art" joint demonstration... tho they certainly could be, behind the scenes...
on the one hand this is only a demonstration, but on the other, msft is doing it with orct and not with seemingly more obvious candidates such as csco or alcatel..
best o luck
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