We had voice, data and video, which were operating separately. Then Mayor Giuliani came in and had a task force take a look at them in order to develop some efficiency. To get to a cutting edge as quickly as possible, they decided to combine the engineering discipline into one department. What was happening here was that we had three tracks going separate ways, while the technologies involved are very, very similar. When you start talking about fiber optics, it doesn't really matter whether you put voice, data or video through it.
Fiber optics can handle all three disciplines.
Instead of taking x amount of time to develop, you now have the resources to develop it. Not exactly in one-third of the time, but at least half of the time, and you get it to the public much quicker. What we really want to do is cut the bureaucracy and the chain of command. Before, there was a layer environment. What we really wanted to do was to flatten that hierarchy.