Mike Tilley

"It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation to see who goes first [for incumbent deployment of Class 5 equivalent softswitches] but the signs are there that the dam is about to break," claims Mike Tilley, director of contract engineering at Marconi.
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For one thing, as Tilley himself concedes, there is the 'turkeys voting for Christmas syndrome' to deal with.
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Mike Tilley, director of contract engineering at Marconi, cites the contribution of the Parlay Group (a multi-vendor consortium developing open APIs) as particularly significant in bringing the IT and telco worlds closer together."By providing an open interface on the IN platform, telcos can host third-party applications developed by the likes of EDS and IBM," he says.