"This is the telecom office," a Haitian man said.
We meet him at the top of a 24-storey telecom office just before he abseils down the glass on a rope attached to him by a single clip.
Avici's showcase product is the Avici Terabit Switch Router (TSR), which acts as a bridge between optical fiber networks and telecom central offices.
After college, way back in 1998, I worked at a big consulting company that was tasked with managing Y2K transitions for telecoms and tax offices around the world.
Spencer, who is all of 29 years old, is poised to disrupt the $7 billion market for office telecom switches (often called PBXs) much the way the Linux open-source computer operating system crushed the price of business computing and brought woe to established leaders such as Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
Digitisation in manufacturing will have a disruptive effect every bit as big as in other industries that have gone digital, such as office equipment, telecoms, photography, music, publishing and films.
The officials who came to Singapore represented ministries governing commerce, post and telecoms, construction, trade, energy and the office of the attorney-general.
This turned out to be the Infomart, which, according to its website, is "a premiere data center, telecom and high-tech office facility" whose tenants include AT&T, IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Texas Instruments.
Also on the table were limits to the fat severance payments available to bureaucrats, and measures to speed the privatisation of telecoms, electricity, fisheries and the post office, and to contract-out the management of ports.Then came a full stop.
O2 and Nokia, both telecoms firms, have established new offices in central London.
