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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (5388)	9/30/1999 9:06:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (5388)	10/2/1999 9:23:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Ken, Carol Wilson makes some good points in the uplinked post. What she is saying is something that has been quite obvious to those who have been planning metro dwdm networks for the past year or two. Dumb pipes are the wave of the future for large urban based enterprises with multiple locations, again, and they will remain that way until the incumbents can demonstrate both price competitiveness and service assurances which either equal or outshine those that they could provide for themselves. What is interesting in her article, and provides some notable contrast, however, is the fact that these new private dumb pipes, unlike the dumb T1s of the early Eighties, are for close-proximity situations, at first, and not the other way around. Frank