We use technology, we don't sell it. More efficient networking technology is a good thing, of course. You have to be customer-driven. But there also is general agreement that customers and carriers will benefit, long-term, from the ability to deliver all services to business customers over an integrated infrastructure. And the real revenue upside will come from new multi-media services enabled by these integrated networks.
Customers prefer reliability over systems that claim to be leading-edge.
There is widespread agreement that packet networking represents the next big shift for all public networks. Still, the business drivers for CLEC VoIP remain a bit unclear, despite possible infrastructure cost savings. We already offer those rates over our circuit-switched network. New competitive carriers emphasize the capital cost advantages packet networks have over conventional circuit-switching platforms. But IP router prices drop about 50 percent every 10 to 20 months.