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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (5130)	9/5/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: david james	Respond to of 12823

Here is a Dow Jones article about International Fibercom and the expected growth and manpower issues - IFCI now doing buildouts for AT&T in Denver, San Fran, and probably Texas. post.messages.yahoo.com post.messages.yahoo.com They claim to be bringing in 300 to 500 Brazilians to help solve some of the manpower problems - but not sure how many will be going back to Brazil to do work for AT&Ts newly purchased system down there. David

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (5130)	9/6/1999 5:43:00 PM
From: D. K. G.	Respond to of 12823

Is Circuit Switching Alive And Well? By Carol Wilson, Inter@ctive Week September 6, 1999 9:25 AM ET Circuit switches are old news, right? These massive mainframe-like systems with their proprietary software might well appear at first glance to represent the musty past of telecommunications, not a vibrant future built on more efficient and open packet-switching technology. Debates may rage on as to whether Internet Protocol (IP)-based packet networks are reliable and scalable enough to become the all-purpose backbone for voice, data and video services, or whether Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) still has a role to play at the network's core or edge. But no one argues that circuit switching is, in fact, a significant technology for the new millennium. Why are circuit switches selling in record numbers? Lucent Technologies, which is investing billions in developing new packet technology, arguably funds that research from an unprecedented level of sales of its 5ESS, a classic Class 5 telephone company central office (CO) circuit. "We're selling 5Es at the rate of at least one a day," says Frank D'Amelio, vice president of marketing and management for switching and access systems at Lucent. "Sales have never been better." <<Contiued @......>> zdnet.com