Nyquist Capital » COGT http://www.nyquistcapital.com More Signal. Less Noise. Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:08:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en The Real Carrier Ethernet Opportunity http://www.nyquistcapital.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyquistcapital.com%2F2007%2F10%2F17%2Fthe-real-carrier-ethernet-opportunity%2F&seed_title=The+Real+Carrier+Ethernet+Opportunity http://www.nyquistcapital.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyquistcapital.com%2F2007%2F10%2F17%2Fthe-real-carrier-ethernet-opportunity%2F&seed_title=The+Real+Carrier+Ethernet+Opportunity#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:50:25 +0000 Andrew Schmitt http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2007/10/17/the-real-carrier-ethernet-opportunity/ It is amazing how little can change in three years. I spent a great deal of time working on Carrier Ethernet in 2004 and 2005, and the presentations I saw at the Lightreading Ethernet Conference and Expo were no different than the ones I saw in 2004.

Equipment makers such as Ciena (CIEN) sang the praises of Carrier Ethernet (all true) and spoke of the various impediments to deploying it: standardization of inter carrier interfaces, administration & operation, quality of service.  It strikes me that the bigger problem is much more basic than the ones being presented.

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