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To: Jack Colton who wrote (20882)1/17/1999 12:43:00 PM
From: Eric  Respond to of 77397
 
Jack

Yes the challenge for LU is to get up to high speed change which Cisco has executed so well. The voice market has slowly evolved over a 100 years and it's only been in the last 30 years that change has really occurred with the hardware.

I can remember as a kid in high school seeing the Central office with the rotary mechanical switches...talk about noise. This was in the late 60's!

Virtually all the old hardware is obsolete! The only thing that isn't is the copper wire and those days are numbered!

Everyone will prosper with the changes, some more some less.

Eric



To: Jack Colton who wrote (20882)1/18/1999 11:44:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 77397
 
Can you even imagine all that would have to change in LU - to try to give them the same ability to respond in the market? It's just not going to happen.

Don't forget Lucent's roots:

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company."