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Technology Stocks : Advanced Fibre (AFCI) ** IPO

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To: E_K_S who wrote (2981)4/21/2000 11:26:00 AM
From: E_K_S  Read Replies (1) of 3299
 
It appears that WinStar (an AFC top 5 customer) has selected Lucent rather than AFCI for their IAD boxes even though AFCI now owns GVN that produces the same equipment. I wonder if WinStar will use any of the GVN equipment even as a 2nd source vendor?

EKS

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Wednesday April 19, 7:34 am Eastern Time
(http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000419/ny_winstar_1.html)
Company Press Release

Lucent Technologies and Winstar Enter Into Agreement to Deploy New Suite of Integrated Access Devices

Winstar Communications to Deploy New Line of Lucent IADs in Thousands of Buildings throughout 2000

From the article: "... Winstar will deploy Lucent's new suite of integrated access devices (IADs) to deliver high quality voice and high-speed data to the desktop..."

"...The Lucent IADs -which are located at the customer building - converge data, packet voice and multimedia content over a single packetized line. The IADs are ATM-based, providing the Quality of Service (QoS) needed to deliver toll-quality voice and offer service level agreements to business customers..."
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