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To: Tulvio Durand who wrote (32768)	3/16/2000 12:14:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

Interesting Article Bernard Daines: The WAN used to be thought of as expensive and scarce and hard to manage and error prone, but with all the fiber going in you can look at most modern structures as just being an extended LAN. It will be Ethernet everywhere. It will be one big LAN and there won't be a need for anything else. Light Reading: What role will Cisco play in transforming telecom? Bernard Daines: They don't want this to happen, because they love to sell you something that's 15 percent better every two or three years and charge you all over for it again. They like gradual stuff so they can keep taxing you for the little increases. Light Reading: Can you pull the rug out from under Cisco? Bernard Daines:Cisco is now the second largest market cap company in the world - at least, it was when it hit $135 the other day. It's very difficult to pull the rug out from under them, but, hey, we all keep trying. It's fun to have a challenge. lightreading.com