And customers really aren't expressing worries over previous Nortel financial problems, management changes and the impact of such things on technology development? They have no concerns about talking to us about our technology proficiency. Universities talk to us for this reason, as opposed to getting sales pitches. In fact, we're sought out by a significant part of the university community, including the MITs of the world.

How does it feel to be facing 2006 after the recession and other problems from the first half of this decade? We're coming into a technology age where there's going to be a fair bit of change in fundamental things. The coming age of next-generation networks is an age of personalization where you aren't expected to adapt to the network anymore, and it's adapting to you. Security and passwords should be simpler and brokered by the network that you're using. Network managers won't really deal as much with single vendors, and we're going to be reaching and expanding to move back and forth across public and private networks easily. Networks will really become an afterthought. Fundamentally, they will be not as complicated. They'll be simpler so that they just work, which is what people want.