To: bucky89 who wrote (55341 ) 10/6/1998 3:34:00 PM From: pat mudge Read Replies (2) | Respond to
Could you give specific evidence when you suggest orders aren't coming in for NN's 36170? is ? I do not know very much about SBC, but I would suspect that they had Newbridge switches in place even before this new contract. If I am wrong, someone please show me otherwise. mainstreetxpress.com As far as Telekom SA, this is likely a very small ATM network, and the article says this is new infrastructure, implying that they did not have an ATM network beforehand. . . . My point still stands. I know of no service provider replacing their switches with Newbridge's or any other's. Once a provider decides on an ATM vendor, that is more or less permanent. The bigger the network, the harder to change vendors, and the more permanent the decision. My point is that there are very few if any examples of a service provider switching equipment suppliers. There is only one example that I know of, and that is AT&T dumping Stratacom for Ascend. That is the norm in the networking industry, and that is NOT going to change regardless of who the equipment vendor is, including Lucent. . . . It is the major carrier major where performance and robustness matter. In smaller, lightly loaded networks, a carrier or enterprise can get away using a cheaper, poorer-performing solution. Furthermore, carrier customers are likely less demanding in places such as South Africa, and a network outtage is no big deal. But in the US and other industrialized areas, businesses depend very heavily on the networks supplied by their service providers. Just look at what happened to AT*T earlier this year.
