> History shows that if you can build a mousetrap that is technically > better than anything on the market, your best route for success is > to sell it into niche markets where the customer appreciates the > technical advances that you can provide and is willing to pay for > those technical advances. I don't think that describes the larger > Internet provider networks.
and this has been so well shown by the blazing successes of bay networks, avici, what-its-name that burst into flames in everyone's labs, ... watch out for flying pigs randy