Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : JDS Uniphase (JDSU) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Exciton who wrote (724)	8/3/1999 10:10:00 PM
From: SJS	Respond to of 24042

Glaze.......<VBG>

To: Exciton who wrote (724)	8/4/1999 12:38:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24042

Thanks for the excellent summary. Understanding fiber optics is an ongoing challenge. And to confuse the process, here's an article on another segment of the market. Good links at the bottom: economist.com

To: Exciton who wrote (724)	8/4/1999 11:04:00 AM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24042

Yikes! I can't understand it at all...it was a heroic post but for the nontechnically minded...can somebody translate? Thanx. Jill

To: Exciton who wrote (724)	8/4/1999 11:24:00 AM
From: Bulldozer	Respond to of 24042

Exciton - to further your discussion, the other area that is included in the next gen products, is the dynamic add/drop mux/demuxes with tunable lasers. This will greatly assist the network and reduce costs and maintenance by allowing the specific channels to be added or dropped "on the fly" as opposed to the static products now available. In other words, the tunable laser will be able to switch wavelengths without being pre-programmed and without having to swap out hardware. This will be a great advance. Agree that SONET/electronics will play a part for a long long time. All the OAM&P built in has taken decades to mature and provides the best intelligence in the world. The other advantage of the OXCs is their ability (touted by the Montereys, Sycamores, etc.) of the world to eventually interconnect and provide a switch fabric granularity at the DWDM line rate - currently OC-48. As I'm sure you know, this is also a big leap from the once advantageous, but now tedious, SONET characteristic of interfacing and switching at the STS-1 to DS3 level (although I believe DCSs are starting to interface at the OC-3 and 12 level but still can only switch at the OC-3 level). At any rate, it will be an exciting evolution - one I believe that will rival electronics in the 60's and 70's. Bulldozer