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The enclosed announcement from SPRINT could get others to move faster.... Quicker orders for Gigamux...
SPRINT UNVEILS REVOLUTIONARY NETWORK
Breakthroughs Give Customers High-Speed, High-Bandwidth, Multi-Function Capabilities Over Single Phone Line
From the press release :
sprint.com
it says:
"Innovation and leadership
More than a decade ago, Sprint ushered in the era of pin-drop
quality and reliability when it introduced the first
nationwide, all-digital fiber optic network. Sprint was first to
market with a variety of products and services, including the
first public data network, the first national public frame relay
service and the first nationwide ATM service offering.
Additionally, Sprint deployed the first coast-to-coast
SONET ring route and was the first carrier committed to
deploying Dense Wave Division Multiplexing on nearly 100
percent of its fiber miles. SONET allows voice, video and data services of any bandwidth size to be transmitted to its destination
with guaranteed delivery. Metropolitan Broadband Networks
extend that powerful service and delivery guarantee in major
markets. This same innovation and execution prowess is the
foundation for ION.
Another technological advancement developed over the past four
years as part of ION is the ability to carry pin-drop
quality voice traffic over an ATM network and to seamlessly
connect to any public switched network. This capability will
be transparent to customers using the Sprint network.
Network capacity is not an issue. Through deployment of Dense Wave
Division Multiplexing and other fiber-optic technologies,
Sprint can efficiently and quickly scale network capacity, as the
marketplace demands, while simultaneously improving unit
economics. In 1998, a single Sprint fiber pair will be able
to simultaneously carry over 2 million calls ---
the equivalent of the combined peak time voice traffic of Sprint,
AT&T and MCI. Next year, that same fiber pair will be
able to simultaneously carry four times the combined voice
traffic of Sprint, AT&T and MCI. "In the Year 2000, one pair
of Sprint fiber will have the capacity to handle 34 million
simultaneous calls, or 17 times today's combined volumes of
Sprint, AT&T and MCI, without having to physically construct
any new fiber," Esrey said. |
