NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: OPTICAL NETWORKING 10/13/04 Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED],
In this issue: * AT&T, MCI seem ripe for the picking, but RBOCs say they are ��not shopping * Links related to Optical Networking * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Veritas Meta Group Whitepaper Database Infrastructure Performance Challenges: Approaches to Better Manage Application Database and Storage Subsystem Performance Corporate relational databases now manage the majority of business-critical data within the enterprise. IT organizations face continuing challenges in managing increasingly complex, data-driven application environments. Read this white paper to discover several factors which will converge to challenge the IT organization's ability to manage its database software infrastructure. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=84685 _______________________________________________________________ WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE NEW DATA CENTER? 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And Verizon, which is reportedly looking to acquire Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless, made no mention of an interest in acquiring an interexchange carriers (IXC) at last week's Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference in New York, where CEOs of the three RBOCs spoke. AT&T President David Dorman canceled his speaking engagement at the conference at the last minute, just before AT&T announced that it was laying off 20% of its 61,600 employees this year instead of the previously announced 8%, and writing off $11 billion in assets as it exits consumer telephony. Published reports have speculated that AT&T is trimming down in order to attract buyers as long-distance voice and data become less profitable, and recent court rulings are likely to raise the price of wholesaling access facilities from the RBOCs. The latter situation prompted AT&T to exit consumer telephony. MCI, meanwhile, already has confirmed that it is seeking an acquirer. It is believed the RBOCs would be interested in the interexchange carriers (IXC) to expand their presence in nationwide enterprise data services such as frame relay and IP VPNs. But SBC and BellSouth say they are not. "Consolidation would be helpful" to raise SBC's profile in the enterprise telecom market "but that's not in our plan," SBC Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre said at the Goldman Sachs conference. Similarly, BellSouth "certainly has enough on its plate right now" with regard to the Cingular/AT&T Wireless merger, says BellSouth CEO Duane Ackerman. BellSouth and AT&T had courted each other earlier last year, but a deal fell apart when the parties could not agree on a price. For the complete story, please go to: <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/101104rbocs.html?op> _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Jim Duffy and Denise Pappalardo Jim Duffy is managing editor of Network World's service provider equipment coverage <http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/>. He has 18 years of high-tech reporting experience, including over 12 years at Network World. Previously, he was senior editor at Computer Systems News and associate editor/reporter at Electronic News and MIS Week. He can be reached at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Denise Pappalardo is a Senior Editor at Network World covering service providers. 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Read this white paper to discover several factors which will converge to challenge the IT organization's ability to manage its database software infrastructure. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=84684 _______________________________________________________________ ARCHIVE LINKS Breaking optical-networking news from Network World, The Edge and around the 'Net, updated daily: http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/optical.html Archive of the Optical Networking newsletter: http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/optical/index.html _______________________________________________________________ FEATURED READER RESOURCE THE NEW DATA CENTER Today's top companies are accelerating toward Web-based computing. That means building the new data center -- where grids, virtualization, autonomic computing and other big changes shatter the traditional boundaries on applications and information, and bring the extended enterprise to life. 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