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To: Techplayer who wrote (9684)	9/27/1999 3:48:00 AM
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Technology News Mon, 27 Sep 1999, 3:46am EDT Lucent, Alcatel, Nortel to Unveil Products at Fiber-Optics Show This Week By Erik Schatzker Lucent, Alcatel, Nortel to Unveil New Products at Optics Show Chicago, Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Lucent Technologies Inc., the biggest phone-equipment maker, Nortel Networks Corp. and others will unveil new products to carry traffic or boost capacity on fiber-optic networks at a trade show this week. Lucent plans to introduce three new products at the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, which runs today through Thursday in Chicago. Nortel, the No. 2 phone-equipment maker in North America, plans to unveil a new technology for boosting capacity, and Alcatel SA has retooled an existing product. With sales of most fiber-optic equipment rising by 50 percent or more a year, companies like Nortel and Lucent are racing to roll out products to attract the most business. Now, they're developing gear for city networks and business, areas in which optical networking is just picking up steam. ''The market is really starting to diversify in terms of applications, geography and functions,'' said Jeffrey Lipton, an analyst at Hambrecht & Quist Group. Among the hottest types of equipment is dense wave-division multiplexing, or DWDM, which increases the capacity of each strand of fiber. DWDM works by combining the colors or wavelengths from different lasers on a single strand. It's already well-established in long-distance networks. Lower Cost Lucent said its new MetroPoint system will let phone companies use DWDM on fiber connecting two points for less than it costs to use the equipment it now sells to connect multiple points. It can be used to connect a location with heavy traffic, like a business campus, to a phone network, for example. MetroPoint is available now. Time Warner Inc. agreed to begin testing another new piece of equipment targeted at corporations. Lucent, based in Murray Hill, New Jersey, said the AllSpectra costs half as much as an equivalent DWDM system for long-haul networks by spacing the laser wavelengths further apart. It uses new technology called wide-spectrum WDM, developed by Lucent's Bell Labs research division. Brampton, Ontario-based Nortel is keeping its plans more secret, saying only that it will unveil a ''breakthrough'' in DWDM technology. Nortel, whose optical-networking sales rose more than 50 percent in the first half of the year, declined to provide any details. Equipment makers ultimately are hoping to develop fiber systems that are cheap enough to be used in offices and homes to link computers. That wiring is now made of copper. Adding Traffic France's Alcatel, the No. 2 phone-equipment maker in Europe, is rolling out a new version of its 1631 digital cross-connect, used mainly to manage voice and data traffic. The latest model is designed to help phone companies quickly add traffic on a fiber network. Lucent is unveiling a product it plans to sell to other equipment makers. OpticGate is a plug-in card for routers that lets competitors such as Cisco Systems Inc. plug fiber cables into their products. OpticGate will let rival vendors set up simple optical networks for their customers. To get DWDM, the customers will have to come to Lucent for more equipment. Lucent said two customers will announce contracts to buy OpticGate during the show. Hambrecht & Quist analyst Lipton said he expects Ciena Corp., another maker of DWDM equipment, to unveil contracts for products it gained with the acquisition of Omnia Communications Inc. six months ago.

To: Techplayer who wrote (9684)	9/27/1999 4:47:00 PM
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IBM service also has LU as a customer. Did anyone realize this? For IBM's services operations, which account for one-third of the Armonk, N.Y., computer maker's total revenues, the Dell deal is the latest in a string of high-profile multibillion-dollar contract wins. Other large corporate customers include Lucent Technologies Inc. LU and Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO , the two leading suppliers of Internet communications equipment, and Cable & Wireless Plc , the British-based global telecommunications services company.