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Technology Stocks : Harmonic Lightwaves (HLIT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eric Jacobson who wrote (2834)	7/8/1999 4:30:00 AM
From: Hiram Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4134

A good article about how aggressive BLS is. They are using HLIT's MetroDWDM system in South Florida. news.com Staking out the broadband terrain With expansion into the $90 billion-a-year long distance market still in the future, BellSouth is staking much of its new spending on the consumer high-speed Internet business. The company has rolled out broadband telephone line services a little more slowly than some of the other big local phone companies, in large part because of technical hurdles inside its own network. But at the same time it has experimented with other options, analysts say. It has taken a lead in bringing fiber optic cables directly to customers, with a trial project in Florida that will be able to offer telephone, high-speed Internet, and television services to more than 200,000 homes by the end of the year. It also has uses some wireless technology to deliver TV signals to a small number of homes and ultimately plans to upgrade this to provide Internet service. "They are taking a broad view of infrastructure," said International Data Corporation analyst Jeannette Noyes. "They'll tend to use whatever technology will work best in any situation." And a small blurb about the networks HLIT is building for RCNC. About the RCN Network RCN's True Local Network(TM) is a unique broadband fiber optic platform capable of offering a full suite of communications services -- including fully featured voice, video and high-speed Internet -- to residential customers. The network employs SONET ring backbone architecture, and localized nodes built to ensure RCN's state-of-the-art fiber optics travel to within 900 feet of RCN customers, with fewer electronics and lower maintenance costs than existing local networks. RCN's East and West Coast local fiber optic networks target densely populated areas comprising nearly 40% of the U.S. residential communications market spread over just 6% of its geography. Tim