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To: signist who wrote (14474)	7/15/1999 12:24:00 AM
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Scaling Optical Data Networks with Wavelength Routing Optical Networking While it promises to scale in capacity sufficiently to meet the exponential growth in bandwidth demand, DWDM is simply a “dumb” fiber multiplier. Converting raw DWDM bandwidth into manageable services is the real challenge. H. Michael Zadikian Today's core network architecture--and the networking equipment it is built upon--lacks the capabilities necessary to deliver the massive amounts of bandwidth required for ubiquitous, rapidly scalable, multigigabit services. The current network model has four layers: IP and other content-bearing traffic are carried over ATM for traffic engineering, over a SONET transport network for restoration, and over DWDM for fiber amplification. This approach has functional overlap across its layers, contains outdated functionality, and is too slow to scale, making it an ineffective architecture for optical data continued telecommagazine.com

To: signist who wrote (14474)	7/15/1999 12:31:00 AM
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Intel Splits Communications Business (07/14/99, 8:07 p.m. ET) By Mark LaPedus, Electronic Buyers' News Hoping to lessen the potential conflicts between its growing communications-equipment and component businesses, Intel said it has split these product segments into two separate organizations. Intel has named John Miner, formerly general manager of the company's Enterprise Server Group, as vice president and general manager of its new Communications Products Group. Miner will be in charge of Intel's LAN/WAN-hardware lines,Internet-enabled server products, as well as computer-telephony hardware specialist Dialogic, which Intel recently acquired. Miner reports to Craig Barrett, Intel's president and CEO. Miner assumes the company's LAN/WAN-hardware duties from Mark Christensen, vice president and general manager of Intel's Network Communications Group. Previously, NCG was responsible for developing and selling its Intel-branded hubs, switches, remote-access equipment, and related items. Christensen will continue to hold the same title for NCG, but he will now become solely responsible for Intel's communications-chip lines. Christensen continues to report to Barrett. In his new role, Christensen will be in charge of Intel's internally developed communications-chip products, such as LAN-chip controller and network-processors. He is also responsible for directing the company's recent acquisitions of LAN-chip specialist Level One Communications and network-processor start-up Softcom Microsystems. Intel acquired Level One last spring for $2.2 billion, while it purchased Softcom earlier this month. The reorganization is intended to split Intel's growing communications-equipment and components sectors into two separate organizations, thereby lessening fears that the company is competing against its OEM customers in LAN/WAN-chip segments. For years, Intel has been selling hubs, remote-access equipment, switches, and other types of products. With its recent acquisitions of Level One and Softcom, however, Intel is positioning itself as a major force in the LAN/WAN-chip segments. "The addition of the Communications Products Group segments our network infrastructure activities along systems and components, bringing greater alignment to our silicon capabilities, platform initiatives, and acquisitions," Barrett said in a statement. Sean Lavey, an analyst with International Data Corp., in Mountain View, Calif., applauded the move. "Logically, it makes sense," he said. techweb.com