Already, Cisco has made a great impact in the optical market, changing the discussion from one centered around voice and cost minimization, to understanding that service providers need to focus efforts on optimizing transport networks to handle data. On the IP side, we continue to lead the market, and in the latest calendar quarter, most industry market research firms indicated our lead is between 70 and 80 percent. In the metro and core IP markets, this is happening in several ways. With flexible optical networking equipment that is closely tied to IP services, providers can install, turn on and provision new links much more quickly. On the IP side, you need equipment that is reliable and scalable to handle mission critical service performance, and can flexibly adapt to new services.
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