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Technology Stocks : Lightpath Technologies: LPTH New WDM player
LPTH 12.44-13.2%Jan 23 9:30 AM EST

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To: craig crawford who wrote (64)6/18/1997 5:00:00 PM
From: D. K. G.   of 1219
 
Craig, thanks again for all your posts. The market darling of WDM has been Ciena corp., another player is Osicom. Given what seems to be the physically superior properities of GRADIUM, can one view these companies as potential customers or competitors? This question goes for other players besides
these two.

Osicom (FIBR) WDM vs. CIEN WDM

FIBR's WDM Product vs. CIEN's
Osicom GigaMux Cienna MultiWave 1600
Market Emphasis Metropolitan networks Long distance communication
Fiber Amplifier Required? No Yes
Bi-directional transmis- Yes No
sion over a single fiber
OC-48 Compatible Yes Yes
Transponder Price $36,300 $50,000
OC-12 Compatible Yes Yes
Transponder Price $9,000 $50,000
Broadband Video Yes No
Network Management SNMP, TCP/IP, PPP SNMP,TCP/IP, PPP
Full 16 Channel Link $300K - $850K $500K- $1.5mill
Other Format Gigabit Ethernet, ???
Fibre Channel, HDTV
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