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Archive for March 12th, 2008

How about a little “rational exuberance”?

Back in my home-sweet-home office after my trip to Ottawa to see first-hand the future technologies Nortel’s R&D guys are working on.  More on that soon in another post.  But first-things-first, today Nortel issued some news that should be of real interest.

Today Nortel unveiled our new 40 Gig optical solution, which also lays the foundation to easily move to 100 Gig.  We’re not the first to announce a 40 Gig solution, but we are the first to have one that is practical to deploy for today’s carriers.  Some of you may be saying “optical, are you kidding?”  But this really is big news about a truly unique Nortel solution, so read on.

Back in the late 1990’s Internet bubble, former …

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