In addition, a long line of other vendors attacking this space include: Alcatel SA (NYSE: ALA; Paris: CGEP:PA), Ciena Corp. (Nasdaq: CIEN), Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO), Internet Photonics Inc., Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: LU), and Tellabs Inc. (Nasdaq: TLAB; Frankfurt: BTLA).
While the two companies arent revealing many details of the coming deployments, Perrin says they will probably remain on networks largely dedicated to a single enterprise to begin with, but carriers like BT will probably launch more shared network services going forward. "Where the service providers want to go over time is to more of a shared network," he says. "That would be much more of a leap for the enterprise."
Eugénie Larson, Reporter, Byte and Switch
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