To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (1012 ) 3/31/1998 9:48:00 AM From: savolainen Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1998
[BEL] Greetings 49r, @ 500 million fujitsu got about 1/3 of the BEL $... on the face of it, seems fujitsu did ok... and looks to be positioned well to compete aggressively for at least a portion of BEL's xdsl business... lu also got a similar portion... and the last 500 million is divided between cienna, dsc communications, and tellabs.. for xdsl seems like lu and fujitsu might be looking eyeball to eyeball on this one... would think all is still wide open for others... can't hurt tho for fujitsu and lu to be designing/installing equipment ... which will probably be part of any end-to-end solution... am sort of expecting sonet/onu (optical network unit) xdsl integration to be a big deal for at least a portion of next generation xdsl equipment... links (courtesy of wstl thread): "Lucent Technologies Strikes Deal Valued at Approximately $500 Million for Bell Atlantic's State-Of-The-Art Data Network"biz.yahoo.com "Bell Atlantic Steps Up Deployment of High-Speed, Broadband Data Network Company Selects Suppliers To Enhance the Most Competitive State-of-the-Art System in the Region... ...Five companies -- CIENA Corp., DSC Communications Corporation [Nasdaq:DIGI - news], Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc., Lucent Technologies and Tellabs, Inc. -- have been selected to supply advanced telecommunications transmission technology to meet the needs of high-bandwidth customers.... biz.yahoo.com "Bell Atlantic and DSC Reach Multi-Year Agreement for DSC's Next-Generation Transport and Network Management Systems"biz.yahoo.com thanks 49r.. was getting sloppy.. and welcome... view your arrival as auspicious.. remember you from usrx... and yes there is an orctf/usrx connection thru scorpio... nothing seems to have come of it (so far)... any and all comments always welcome, s