<<The Nishan CEO was also the CEO of Amati Communications>>
What a small world. I made out quite well with Amati. 1996, two way cable modem on a simplex wire was a pipe dream. DSL held so much promise that there were quite a few high flyers such as Westel, Orkchit (spelling, an Israli company), Aware, etc. We had extensive discussions on the two competing standards of DSL. The chief tech officer of Amati (one of the co-founders) was a professor from Stanford. He owned some of the patents of DSL which he had to share with the rest of the world because it was adopted as the standard. We even had some of the development engineers to join in (with Doctorate degree). Then, I saw the writing on the wall, CLECs were really not interested in implementing them regardless what they said publicly. Some of that analogy may apply here. SoIP sure sounds sexy and there seems to have many big boy 'lip' endorsement. Watch what the big boys do, not what they said publicly. I am referring to the CSCO, IBM, DELL, SUNW, CPQ, HWP, NT, LU, Alcatel, etc. They all have different agendas. All IMHO. |
