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Technology Stocks : Sycamore Networks Inc-(SCMR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MikeD who wrote (10)	8/7/1999 10:19:00 PM
From: Techplayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2249

MikeD, include omnia communications (bought by ciena), castle networks (siemens) and a half dozen (2-3 sold, several in progress)or so by Wu Fu chen (shasta most recently). Brian

To: MikeD who wrote (10)	8/8/1999 8:17:00 PM
From: D. K. G.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2249

MikeD, you said it. Here's an article on Sycamore's product pricing: zdnet.com Startup Sycamore to unveil optical networking line By John Rendleman, PC Week Online March 2, 1999 2:53 PM ET Upstart Sycamore Networks Inc. this week will launch its line of "intelligent optical networking" products designed to increase the bandwidth and flexibility of service providers' networks. At the same time, Sycamore will announce its first major customer win, a $24.5 million dollar contract from the Williams Communications unit of the Williams Cos. for optical networking products that Williams will deploy this month as part of the network it uses to offer wholesale data services to its customers. With the Sycamore optical products, Williams hopes to reduce the cost and provisioning times of its services at the same time that it starts evolving to an all-optical architecture, said Williams officials in Tulsa, Okla. On the product front, the SN 6000 Intelligent Optical Transport Node for wide area networks is available now at list prices beginning at $20,000 for a base system, plus $47,000 per 2.5G-bps port. The SN 6000 system accommodates up to 28 2.5G-bps ports per bay. The SN 8000 Intelligent Optical Add/Drop Node device, meanwhile, is currently in beta tests and will ship next month. It provides a single platform for transport, switching and routing in medium- and long-haul network environments, where providers need to provision optical services across access, interoffice and regional networks, said Sycamore officials in Chelmsford, Mass. The SN 8000 has a base list price of $20,000, plus $48,000 per 2.5G-bps port, with the capability to accommodate up to 22 of the 2.5G-bps ports per bay. Other Sycamore products -- including the SN 8400, a version of the SN 8000 transport and switching device, and the SN 860 Optical Networking Adapter -- will be available in August. The final set of Optical Network and Service Management products will provide end-to-end carrier management of optical services and allow for customer network management functions, officials said. The entire product line is intended as a platform for optical bandwidth-on-demand services as providers migrate their networks away from ring architectures based on SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) equipment and toward meshed optical architectures, said Desh Deshpande, founder and chairman of Sycamore. With meshed optical network architectures, network operators will be able to provision only the bandwidth they need to meet customer requirements, reducing the costs of high-bandwidth data, said Deshpande, who was also the founder and chairman of Cascade Communications Corp. ----- regards, dkg