Re: KPNQWEST cease operation?

[neil () DOMINO ORG (Neil J. McRae)]

> What I wonder is what they mean by "shutdown". If this means that the 
> equipment is unplugged, then how many of these alternate providers will 
> suddenly discover that they have a dependency on an Ebone SDH/SONET ADM or 
> an Ebone DWDM box? If management at these alternate providers is just 
> hunting through their databases looking for KPN/Qwest dependencies they 
> probably won't see the complete picture. KQ only completed the Ebone 
> acquisition back in March and about a year earlier, Ebone was doing 
> business under the name GTS or Global Telesystems. Most people who bought 
> wavelengths or leased lines from Ebone would have done it under those 
> names and most of those companies were carriers or network operators.
>
> This could get interesting. Personally, I hope that the NOC employees in 
> Brussels succeed in getting potential buyers to realize the value of a 
> functioning cross-border fiber network that covers all of Europe. 

Michael, I can't imagine a single carrier that doesn't know that
HER=GTS=EBONE=KQ. [Certainly by the volume of orders I've seen
somebody knows ! :D]

Regards,
Neil.
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