Pat, with 4000 platform from JV with TeleHub, which combined Signaling System 7 (SS7) interworking, across the Newbridge multiservice, multi-access ATM platform which provide siwtch 4 substitution, and can perform everything what 36170 can(FR,CE,TDM,LMDS,ADLS,IP etc) on one unify platform, I am not surprised that Bell Atlantic is doing business with NN.
Why they should used "multibox" platforms form others, if they can do it on one. I may be wrong , but I suspect that BEll is using ASND gears to suppost legacy network based on gears from Cascade, before ASND bought it, and all new networks wre runing on NN platform.
Zbyslaw |