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To: gdichaz who wrote (3286)	6/29/1999 10:47:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 54805

Cha2, What you are asking me is entirely practical, of course. I didn't mean to paint myself into a corner, or give you any cause to be cautious. Sorry about that. "Is fiberoptics an area of interest where you can answer general questions on technology. Is broadband wireless one you are comfortable with. That sort of thing." My work requires me to stay extremely close to an endless number of evolving technologies, including (sometimes, almost devoted to) optically-derived transmission systems. So, where I can answer questions in this area I'd be very happy to do so. Wireless is also on my screen, but not in the same sense as the last mile, exactly, or the telco air interface spaces. I can't get into these, but many of the same technologies are at play. I am not as sure footed with answering questions surrounding popularized wireless technologies, however, as I am with wireline techs, to answer another part of your question in a more conclusive way. I think that I've already demonstrated a mild uncertainty with Bluetooth, which is actually okay, and worked out rather well in the end, I'd say. I say that it's okay, because now I know a lot more about Bluetooth than I did a couple of days ago. One never learns as much as when he is forced to teach what he does not know. (Ladies, please excuse the reference to he, in this case, but I'm referring to myself here, and I'm not prepared to neuter myself just yet.) This is an adage which I coined back in my earlier days of military instructional activity for the US Army Signal Corps. So, if I've got the time and the topic resembles what I'm already fairly versed in, I'd be happy to try my best at answering any questions. And I'm not too proud to hand off the question to someone else when I'm either momentarily swamped, or when I simply don't have a clue. My particular focus right now is in the architectural modeling of several very high capacity fiber-based transport and distribution systems, and their related environmental dependencies. These encompass DWDM [and increasingly looking to optical routing], the premises infrastructure, the Metro space, and the public carrier wide area levels of dark fiber [indefeasible right of use, or IRU leasing] and other leased optical system provisions. Related to these networks, I am also involved with several storage area network (SAN) designs and some of their related archiving systems across the country. Hope I've given you a better idea and answered your questions more satisfactorily this time around. -smile- Regards, Frank Coluccio