more on A return to the Intelligent Network

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby () henkel-wallace org>
Date: December 4, 2005 1:17:24 PM EST
To: Chris Kantarjiev <cak () dimebank com>
Cc: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] A return to the Intelligent Network

On Dec 4, 2005, at 09:30 , Chris Kantarjiev wrote:
> > You'd think
> > that Cisco, of all companies, would understand that there's far more
> > money to be made by (almost) everyone with the "dumb network" model.
> > They made all their money at the expense of the "intelligent
> > networks" folks and now they themselves seem intent on repeating the
> > downsides of the POTS approach (worse, without POTS's advantages)
>
> I guess we're revisiting the bad old days of IBM, where 'nobody
> ever got fired for specifying IBM', even when there were better
> technical solutions on the market.

I do think that's not the case here.  One of the parts of the article  
that I elided was a note that cisco's mkt share was sliding from 85%  
to around 50%, and they are looking for ways to reëstablish dominance.

But this is an unfortunate approach to take.

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