Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage)

Thu Feb 26 21:11:11 UTC 2004

> History shows that if you can build a mousetrap that is technically
> better than anything on the market, your best route for success is
> to sell it into niche markets where the customer appreciates the
> technical advances that you can provide and is willing to pay for
> those technical advances. I don't think that describes the larger
> Internet provider networks.

and this has been so well shown by the blazing successes of
bay networks, avici, what-its-name that burst into flames in
everyone's labs, ...

watch out for flying pigs

randy