How to Sculpt Wireless Art From a Wireline Artifact

摘要

Ask Teresa Vega how her wireless experience at Lucent Technologies prepared her for the challenge of helping an old-line developer of operation support systems break into uncharted industry sectors, and her answer is concrete. Not concrete as in the oppo site of abstract -concrete as in the construction material. "I know how I won at Lucent,"Vega said. " I mean, I paved roads in South America to put up towers." When asked for clarification ow whether she actually piloted the cement mixer, Vega―who is now a sector vice president for Telcordia Technologies and group president of the company's wireless, cable and emerging markets unit―was somewhat less animated, as befitting one of the top executives at an institution working to shake its ties to the former Bell System and be per- ceived as a nimble software competitor:"We did whatever it took to meet the customers'needs,"she said.