Is Qwest Shunning Startups?

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fiber_r_us 12/4/2012 | 10:35:23 PM

re: Is Qwest Shunning Startups? red1969 said:
>Will Procket / Caspian / Hyperchip be offering
>Friends and Family to clients?

Sorry to hear you weren't part of the F&F offer!

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stuartb 12/4/2012 | 10:35:23 PM

re: Is Qwest Shunning Startups? Metro Optix was "excused" from the lab trial at Qwest some time ago.

-Stu

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joe_average 12/4/2012 | 10:35:23 PM

re: Is Qwest Shunning Startups? >>Will Procket / Caspian / Hyperchip be offering Friends and Family to clients?<<

Uh, does the sun rise in the east? Is the Pope Polish? etc.

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zweisel 12/4/2012 | 10:35:19 PM

re: Is Qwest Shunning Startups? Any start up. The ones that lied through their PowerPoint presentations and provided useless error-prone equipment by cutting corners around test engineering, design, verification, product integrity testing. The incumbent vendors (Lucent, Alcatel, Nortel, Siemens, Ericsson) will be the only telecom survivors standing after the optical dot bomb smoke settles to supply the switching, optical, and wireless markets.

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xoip 12/4/2012 | 10:35:19 PM

re: Is Qwest Shunning Startups? Can some one elaborate on this
- what areas(metro, edge, optical ??)
- name the startups if possible
Thanks
XoIP

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optical_man 12/4/2012 | 10:35:17 PM

re: Is Qwest Shunning Startups? "Author: metro_ether_man Number: 8
Subject: Message for Startups! Date: 4/17/2002 10:55:15 AM
Remember the Sr. Development Test Engineer you laid of last month, now She/He is the Sr. Internetworking Architect at Qwest, thinking twice
about putting the product in there and looking for
alternative solutions.
Ha!"

Putting 'personal' issues ahead of 'business' issues will shorten your career by a factor of 5. Not only will you be distracted, your peers and superiors will quickly see through your veiled animosity towards any given company that you feel you have an ax to grind.
Get back to business, and let the old girlfriend GO, she's moved on, why don't you?

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optical_man 12/4/2012 | 10:35:17 PM

re: Is Qwest Shunning Startups? "Author: sugarzee Number: 1
Subject: Bross = Barnacle in Sea of Life Date: 4/16/2002 10:17:31 PM
You really piss us off.
Cordially,
WCG(R.ob) stockholders. "

Why? I personally don't think what he did was kosher, but we all knew what he was doing. Did any stockholders say anything in the last few years about it? NOPE.
Too late now to get mad.

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metro_ether_man 12/4/2012 | 10:35:15 PM

re: Is Qwest Shunning Startups? Putting 'personal' issues ahead of 'business'
Never, Just the truth, the hole truth, and nothing but the truth.

issues will shorten your career by a factor of 5.
Not Really, they just boosted my position's
with a company that has a better mouse trap.

Not only will you be distracted, your peers and superiors will quickly see through your veiled
They welcome my insight and believe in the "Truth".

animosity towards any given company that you feel you have an ax to grind.
No Grindage!
Get back to business, and let the old girlfriend GO, she's moved on, why don't you?
Done!

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elvislives 12/4/2012 | 10:35:11 PM

re: Is Qwest Shunning Startups? > The incumbent vendors (Lucent, Alcatel, Nortel,
> Siemens, Ericsson) will be the only telecom
> survivors standing...

That's a good thing. Being a Nortel and Lucent fan, I am very happy that we will go back to the days were innovation is going at the frantic Nortel pace.

I just love products that come out 4, 5 or 6 years late on schedule, that use outdated technology and is created in an institution that could rival with congress for their level of politics.

Face it, Nortel and Lucent had their time in the sunshine.. Now, I just hope they will suffer and eventually be acquired for a penny.

> useless ... equipment

You're right again. With develop new equipment. We have phones, we have modems, we don't need more. We don't need new technology.

Remember the US patents clerk who, in the early 19th century, resigned because there was nothing more to invent? We can close the US patents office !

> error-prone

If only every company could be like Nortel and deliver flawless equipment!

Wake up, Nortel and Lucent are doomed.

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zweisel 12/4/2012 | 10:35:07 PM

re: Is Qwest Shunning Startups? Can you be any more of a dork if you tried? Lucent and Nortel will survive and only get stronger as the market improves. Have you forgot that they have other non-optical businesses to fund their optical businesses in the interim?

You obviously work for a (doomed) startup or was let go by Lucent or Nortel. Good luck.

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