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Technology Stocks : Orckit (ORCT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: savolainen who wrote (1862)	7/23/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Respond to of 1998

thanks savo. good reading. wonder if analysts will establish new price target if Orct contintues to ramp up... (meaning ML)

To: savolainen who wrote (1862)	7/27/1999 10:32:00 AM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1998

AOL and GTE team to offer ADSL: Message 10668761

To: savolainen who wrote (1862)	7/28/1999 7:37:00 PM
From: Reza Daftari	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1998

Could this be the missing link between Orckit and the "Other" major OEM in N.A. fnc.fujitsu.com Sprint Uses SPEEDPORT™ for Charlottesville ADSL Trial Fujitsu's DSL Access Multiplexer Has Top Transmission Performance RICHARDSON, Texas, January 6, 1998 - For Sprint's trial of high-speed asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) technology in Charlottesville, Virginia, the service provider chose the SPEEDPORT™ digital subscriber line access multiplexer from Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. Sprint personnel involved in the trial praised SPEEDPORT's performance on less-than-perfect copper telephone lines. In the trial, Sprint extended a hospital's local area network and high-speed Internet access to several physicians' offices. This allowed the transfer of critical, high-resolution medical image files and other data from the hospital in seconds. "I was impressed that the new SPEEDPORT DMT (discrete multi-tone) modems had the highest transmission performance of all the systems we evaluated," said Mike O'Shea, project manager for Sprint's xDSL trial. "They operated despite very high levels of interference noise and enabled us to achieve megabit rates on long lines that were previously considered unsuitable for high-speed data transfer. "I particularly liked the high level of customer support and installation training provided by Fujitsu." The SPEEDPORT solution, jointly developed by Fujitsu and partner Orckit Communications (NASDAQ: ORCTF), is based on a common 23-inch shelf, designed for NEBS compliance. It accepts rate-adaptive SDSL and DMT ADSL modem line cards and features 72 SDSL lines or 48 DMT ADSL modems per shelf, with concentration and management interfaces. Customer modems have 10Base-T or ATM-25 interfaces. Both SDSL and ADSL modems support simultaneous voice telephone service. "This was an important trial, and the fact that Sprint chose the SPEEDPORT access multiplexer after a competitive evaluation attests to its technical superiority," said David Self, director of corporate business development at Fujitsu. "Our SPEEDPORT product is designed to handle a broad range of business and residential access needs. In this case, the full power of ADSL was needed to move medical images at a high speed. Another strength of the SPEEDPORT equipment is that it was also flexible enough to scale downward to lower bandwidths such as 384 or 768 kbps that may be more appropriate to residential users, or to serve users at greater distances from the central office." Fujitsu has developed a comprehensive business case for the SPEEDPORT product, showing telecommunications providers how to provide DSL service profitably at a range of access speeds. "Sprint has always demonstrated industry leadership in the development of new local services and applications" said Nigel Cole, vice president of business development for Orckit Communications, Fujitsu's partner. " In addition to testing higher speed Internet service, this experiment involved applications - such as fast medical data transfer - that could fully exploit the benefits of interconnecting LANs."

To: savolainen who wrote (1862)	8/4/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: Daniel Ralls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1998

Allegiance Telecom might be one of the CLEC wins: fnc.fujitsu.com is outfitting its New York and Dallas networks with Fujitsu transmission equipment to provide reliable voice, data, and Internet services. from ALGX's earnings press release: biz.yahoo.com Allegiance began deployment of symmetric DSL equipment in seven markets in June. At the end of the quarter, equipment had been deployed in 25 Allegiance collocations, and we also installed what we believe to be the first commercial application of the new HDSL2 standard. (Note: The HDSL2 standard requires the use of only one unbundled loop, instead of two for the older HDSL standard.) We are currently conducting customer trials of the unsymmetric ADSL equipment and plan to initiate deployment in the third quarter. The Company believes that with the scope of its existing networks, the number of collocations it has in service and its extensive direct sales force, it is well positioned to commercialize DSL and bring its customers the tools they need to prepare for an e-commerce environment. ----- ALGX is a nice sized CLEC ($3 billion mkt cap). I wonder if they are using CNXT/ORCT HDSL2. CNXT is shipping it and have said that demand is strong. So ORCT might be getting both HDSL2 and ADSL from this company.