>Actually, Cisco bought the ONS 15900 along with Monterey Networks for 500
>million in August of 1999. That's what makes this a particularly
>interesting move by Cisco since this was an aquisition which places them in
>the market of one of the next big core technologies exactly following the
>corporate culture NRF mentioned. Core network technologies has always been
>their bread and butter and to see them dump the Monterey project after
>investing and aquiring the company just because of the economic slow down is
>questionable in my mind. Other companies have had it rough too. I've heard
>Lucent almost went bankrupt but as NRF pointed out they are still heavily
>investing in Lambda switching. It has been confirmed by the VP of Optical
>Networking that Cisco doesn't plan on reengaging the lambda switching market
>anytime soon. With a compound annual growth rate of 137% and an estimated
>5.7 billion spent in optical switches by 2005 the question in my mind
>is...Is this an irresponsible move by a leader in the networking industry?
Much as I like Nortel, the True Leader is Mary.
"Mary had a little lambda..."
Shari Lewis and Lamdachop also presumably demonstrated optical access control.
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