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TY:
In terms of standards, do you see a real leader among standards bodies?
Rabii:
There’s a lot of effort involved in standardization of Ethernet OAMP. I’m not a close standards follower, but I do know that things have gotten better, but I don’t know that they’ve gotten better to the point where the vendors themselves can take the standards given to them by standards bodies and build a product around that and not feel like they’ve wasted investment, yet. I know I’m not the only one with this problem. I think lots of service providers are dealing with this right now.
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high concentration of sophisticated
customers, fueled by the financial
industry, was and had been ahead of
many other places. The Bay Area was
quick to adopt, and other NFL cities
were quick to adopt. Anyplace there is
a need to communicate between
datacenters, corporate offices, and
branch offices, metro Ethernet is going
to be there. I don’t see another viable
option. Of course, I can also see that
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TY:
Optimum Lightpath is mostly active in the New York Tri-State area. Do you think Carrier Ethernet is as viable in parts of the country and the world where there aren’t such dense collections of businesses and organizations?
Rabii:
I do, personally. I think in some
markets, it may be a matter of time
before they catch up. Before my time at
Lightpath, I worked for a company that
had a national and international
presence. At the time, New York and its
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for certain carriers, there will be that
analysis that says don’t buy new
network, make the network you have
last a little longer.
TY:
Any other thoughts?
Rabii:
We are just happy that we were early into the Ethernet game, and are now investing in next generation networks. We’re committed to keeping our edge by doing new things with metrics and provisioning, and we look forward to continuing to be in a position to pass on interesting features to our customers.
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