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When Michael O'Hara, a guy who has spent most of his career with telecom equipment firms, makes the hop to Microsoft, it's worth asking what he's up to, why he's there, and what he's seeing from inside the software world that might help carriers better plan for new services, like IPTV
Interoute's VP of services, Matt Finnie, says Ethernet equipment vendors still aren't quite in sync with the carriers turning on services. "You'll see a slight disconnect between vendors suggesting architectures and actual guys out there selling the stuff," he says
In this June 7th interview, Nortel Networks' good-natured chief strategy officer, George Riedel, explains how IMS, IPTV, and WiMax are only first steps to where the company sees its technology opportunities
The CTO of one of the more interesting service providers in Europe, Exponential-e, discusses Ethernet's exponential growth and why the company made a switch from Riverstone to Alcatel
Alcatel's Basil Alwan talks about the importance of edge routing technology, market share, and design as carriers scale their networks to include video applications at every level
