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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (6451)	8/5/2000 6:42:28 AM
From: Bosco	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14638

Hi Ken - w/i the optical network context, maybe Mr Johnson was alluding to OpTera vs SCMR/ONIS etc etc alliance. I ve not read his works until this interview. I gather the book "The Gorilla Game" has a great followers, like the "Megatrends" etc etc of yesteryears. The interesting thing is that he asserts the open architecture will win the race, which seems to be a piece of good folk wisdom, but what is open architecture is debatable. ISA is open, microchannel is not, and we know what's happened next. However, is PCI an open architecture? It wasn't if not proposed by the King Kong of the semiconductor. And how about CSCO IOS? Since Mr Johnson is the expert in CSCO, he probably has a better answer. best, Bosco

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (6451)	8/5/2000 2:36:15 PM
From: telecomguy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14638

What does it mean to be proprietary anyway? This is such an abused term in the technology field. Microsoft Windows is a proprietary system...........it just happens to have 99% of the market share so by definitinon it became the standard. As long as you can INTEROPERATE & INTERCONNECT different vendor's platforms, it doesn't matter whether a switch is proprietary or not -- especially if the key functionalities are open through system-level acccess & API's at the application level. NT's system integrates just as well with other vendor's equipment including Juniper. Anyway, the whole argument of proprietary versus standards-based issue is less important in the Carrier networking world. For example you may have MCI-Worldcom use 5 or 6 different vendor equipment (including NT) to create their network. So if you can mix & match different vendor's equipment in your network, what's the big deal regarding proprietary versus open..........if you can even define it properly that is.