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Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and now VC at Polaris Venture Partners, gives LRTV his two cents on what’s been happening with Ethernet since 1973 and where it’s headed. He also manages to take a swipe at Harvard, predicts the fall of Fibre Channel, looks forward to a WiMax attack on everybody, and says, “There are a lot of people in China.”
The triple play of voice, video, and data services has long been an object of desire for telcos, but it has always remained just out of reach. That is about to change, for two basic reasons: First, the technology to enable triple play over carrier infrastructure is now ready for deployment; second, local telcos have no choice but to become triple-play providers. In this documentary we examine the technologies and applications driving successful deployment of triple play.
Carl Russo, president and chief executive of Calix, is one of the best known figures in the telecom industry. The big question on many people’s minds is whether he can repeat the success he had as chief executive of Cerent with his new venture. In this exclusive interview with LRTV, he sheds light on where Calix is headed and on the broadband telecom market itself.
