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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3426)	7/22/2001 11:54:36 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

What was "at issue with ethernet" is that you quote Tom Nolle's criticism of various efforts to implement ethernet. Where does that place you? EPON is far away and the E doesn't need the PON now. you don't like standards activities, unless it suits your needs (witness the GMPLS excerpt you sent me earlier) Here's the difference: "But simple, best-effort standards have a long history of beating more complex full-feature protocols". Do you want to claim that FSAN is "best efforts"? This is hardly "best efforts": we will not likely see an EPON that is reproducible, or one whose components can be made cost effectively enough to satisfy mass deployments. In fact, it represents a reaction of supply looking for a demand. In this case standards efforts are an attempt to prop up that which won't stand on its own. Others are holding on by a thread, clutching their business plans while cutting costs wherever they can, hoping that their projections will at least partially hold up until the downturn reverses. That's where it places you. Others, still, may go on to prosper (none of them are yet), but not before they prove that what they have to offer has value and that they are sustainable, over a longer time frame. That criterion has been applied to PON and so far there are few takers. Actelis isn't the only implementation of SDM. In fact, there are quite a few out there. There are mixed variants too. It is my contention that SDM ethernet on ECI will be the evolutionary path by which scale convergence will take place. I believe GigE will command the MAN and that integration will be cheapest, easiest, on SDM E ECI. The ECI is in place and under financial power and incentive. That's a fertile field that doesn't exist anywhere else. Engineers emphasize that standards come first. If that was the case, nothing would ever get done. Someone has to take a risk. You take the risk and make the product. If it sells, the standards boys come around for their pound of flesh.