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Q: This is a little more nebulous,
but where is this all going? What
is it leading to? What happens
when there is interoperability
across the board? What happens
when the TMF has succeeded in what
it has set out to do?
A: That's a great question. We've
been wondering that, more or less,
since we started the group. We thought
the problem was actually a small
one. How do you stick a bit of premise
equipment on the end of a network?
As we've gotten into managed services
and converged services, the problem
just keeps getting bigger. It would
be great to think of a time when
the problems are solved and we've
no more to do, but in the last two
years alone, we've seen the emergence
of SDPs, a whole new class of services.
The connectivity services are getting
easier to manage as the network gets
simpler. The information, content,
and applications end gets more and
more complicated. It's enough to
keep us busy. Perhaps your question
was aimed a bit deeper, though. How
far can standards go? Is it desirable
that everything looks the same? The
answer to that is definitely nebulous.
Take an airline. How many elements
are standard, and how many elements
are competitive differentiation?
Quite a lot is standard. The runways
and the baggage handlers
and the ....
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carts
on board and such are all
standardized, either by real
standards or by the fact
that everyone buys from Beoing
or Airbus. Yet, airlines
still compete on many levels.
So what is desirable to compete
on and what isn't? There's
a high desire to build everything,
from cars to computers, out
of reusable components that
can be reconfigured. If you're
going to do that, there has
to be a standard. The level
of standardization in the
telecom space becomes much
more like the standardization
across service industries.
There becomes a sort of cross-industry
standard. There's a lot of
change. It's a great question,
but unfortunately it would
take several hours to properly
answer it [laughs].
Q: I thought you might
say as much. Thank you
for speaking with us.
A: It's been a pleasure.
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