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Technology Stocks : Ascend Communications (ASND) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bill c. who wrote (61046)	5/14/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: The Phoenix	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

IT WILL PROBABLY TAKE five to six years for converged carrier networks .... said Jeanette Symons, chief technology officer and co-founder of Ascend Communications, during a keynote address here at NetWorld + Interop. Symons rattled off a long list of voice services common to the traditional voice network that must be replicated in IP before carriers deploy a single voice, video, and data network. Those include standards, multivendor interoperability, availability, consistent service, real-time service, bandwidth control, and delay, jitter, and error control. Not a good sign for LU/ASND. I believe that LU's management takes a different view. She has to know at CTO that standards work is in moving very quickly which will translate into interoperability. As for consistent service - that's the beauty of IP..SP's can offer unique services and pricing will be based upon services - not bandwidth. Real-time, bandwidth control, delay, jitter, error control... all these have been solved aleady. It won't take 5-6 years until carriers begin deploying and offering end to end multiservice broadband access. OG