Are the competitors of SCMR single threading their approach? No.
What's this "single threading" stuff? You seem to be outside of the SCMR business model.
They are selling products to cash strapped CLECs, new network builders and foreign networks just like SCMR.
Should SCMR devote resources to sell their's? I mean, should SCMR devote resources to sell what others are selling?
Getting approved for deployment in an OSMINE network does not take a full 3 years to do as has been mentioned. One start-up company, Astralpoint (a member of the ODSI), started the OSMINE process in August and has already received CLEI codes. Testing will begin in 2001.
Just what kind of technology is supported by CLEI codes? Can it go beyond OEO?
I am not arguing that the little and new guys on the block will use the equipment.
If the BOCs take that kind of attitude, TSIX will eclipse them and CLECs will finish the job using TSIX equipment and tactical implementation.
With concerns about cash running rampant for the likes of Williams, probably 360 networks in a year and most of the CLECs, why not hedge the bet be able to supply equipment to the big guys.
Because a hedge is a bet that you're wrong. That's ok with commodities, but what SCMR has hasn't reached that state yet. What Telecordia has certainly has reached it, so why not put that criterion there? Those companies reaching for certification are tacit admission that they can't compete. It is a way of seeking a bail-out.
The RBOCs are dinasaurs that are not going to change.
Then they will soon be extinct. Is that where resources should go? Is that part of the hedge too?
SCMR is avoiding that market by not complying.
Wrong. SCMR is avoiding the potholes that always proliferate where the past is embraced
BellSouth's core network needs OSMINE compliance, as does SBC, Verizon, etc. Those are nice customers to have that NT, CIEN, ALA etc are selling to.
Big is beautiful. Ask MSFT or IBM or NT or LU. CIEN will be joining that noble group soon enough.
You have no argument except to throw good money after bad. If SCMR wants to throw money away why not spend it on R&D into things like photonic crystals? |
