Re: SONET Interconnect (was RE: MCI)

["Larry J. Plato" <ljp () ans net>]

> > According to Sean Doran:
> > Someone suggested to me that it's because so much money has
> > been spent on developing the technology that it HAS to be
> > used in order to recover the investment.
> >
> > Doesn't the fact that they recover the investment mean that enough
> > people wanted the product and were willing to pay for it?
> >
> > Shikhar
>
> Nah, rather that they woudln't get a choice or would not know
> better.  ATM is like a pyramid craze.
>
> --vadim
>
> PS Can you say that loss writeoff is a way to recover investment?
>    I've certainly seen some clever accounting going on :)
IMHO loss writeoff would be less of a loss than deploying ATM
and having to live with it.  It's not that I hate ATM per se,
but why pay the performance penalty when ATM provides no value
add,

Larry Plato
I speak for myself only.