…offering of 40 Gigabit Ethernet versus 100 Gigabit Ethernet.  For NTT, the desire is to skip 40GE and move directly to offering their customers 100GE.  Shawn says this is partially a decision to simplify and de-cost their network, and partially due to the fact that they have had no customer demand…

…expected standardization of 100 gigabit Ethernet later this year.  That?s because OTN will likely be the only optical protocol capable of carrying 100GE services.  That fact has caused some of the world?s largest service providers to publicly jump on the OTN bandwagon, including AT&T and Verizon…