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To: quidditch who wrote (1304)	10/17/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: Kent Rattey	Respond to of 24042

<PS Kent, thanks for your perspective. Is the complexity to which you refer primarily metro deployment related or the optical cross-connects and optical switches, as well as multiplying lambdas?> I was referring to current fiber capacity, and the competitive pressures the Carriers are facing to buildout the networks. We have businesses requesting OC-12 connections at their premises, fully redundant...no easy task in these times. We have to request provisioning for POP capacity at these levels. It can take months for this, and everyone needs it. One of the reasons IBM sold Advantis was due to the fact telco capacity was too difficult to get, and the network was bulging at the seams(I was told they wanted to add 30 additional T-3's and were told to stand in line). It had to be sold and owned by a telco in order the handle the capacity issues. So much for the bandwidth glut. Kent