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To: RetiredNow who wrote (6557)	8/14/2000 9:34:10 PM
From: peggylynn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14638

carriers want to be able to buy interoperable products from multiple vendors based on industry standard protocols, not rely on one single vendor. Mindmeld - Meeting protocol standards does not make equipment interoperable. The established carriers have traditionally employed armies of people to do this and they are realizing that they can no longer afford to do so. Also, even if the new carriers could afford such armies they wouldn't be able to find even a fraction of the qualified people needed to do such things in a timely manner. Sprint was basically saying that proprietary pieces of equipment that don't make nice with other people's gear are no longer welcome. This means that interoperability issues will increasingly fall on the shoulders of vendors. In the enterprise space where CSCO rules as the gorilla it becomes everyone else's problem to get their gear to work with CSCO's. The carrier space is a completely different playground with very different rules. The press has reported that the Sprint/CSCO deal for a converged network had come unraveled although I don't believe Sprint commented on this. Recently there was a press release stating that NT's Passport was deployed in Sprint's network. - peggylynn biz.yahoo.com Nortel Networks Passport Packet Voice Gateway Solution Goes Live in Sprint Network Internet Telephony Solution Converges Sprint Voice, Data Networks for Savings, Flexibility