Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Excel Switching Corporation (XLSW) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jatin Kadakia who wrote (148)	6/29/1999 1:33:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 222

Jatin, "...upgrading switch and host software simultaneously. And believe me, it is a very complex process as each release depends on the other." That's precisely my point. And thanks for those views, but I was very clearly NOT suggesting that the programmables and the more polular Class 5s were of the same architecural class. The DMSs and 5Es are far more rigid, as your referenced point above makes clear. My main point is fostered by the fact that they "are" different, and that the smaller and more nimble platforms, particularly for use by IXCs and certain emerging CLECs/ITSPs [Internet Telephony Service Providers] entering the enterprise level local exchange markets, is the preferred way to go. It allows them to create a diffuse, rather than a highly concentrated, mode of presence over a single or multiple serving territories in a manner which is less risky and just in time. Of course, much of this is subjective and open to philosophical debate, which by the experienced tone of your post suggests that you already know, but being highly distributed is clearly a viable modality today, compared to where it was only a few years ago. And the larger players need to be able to address this growing niche, lest they lose out on a growing number of sales. All IMO, of course. Regards, Frank Coluccio