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To: BlueCrab who wrote (16348)	10/18/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: Sector Investor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42804

From Yahoo! Re: Marconi (Reltec) (MRVC's parts connect to Marconi's) Catch the part about 155 Mbps! *The Company believes it is the only* company that offers an FTTC solution that can be deployed economically within 500 feet of the subscriber. Because the final drop is within 500 feet of the subscriber, the physical characteristics of the drop cable (the "baseband" characteristics) permit signal transmission at rates up to 155 Mbps without requiring the addition of passband modulation electronics such as Integrated Services Digital Network ("ISDN") or xDSL. In addition, the Company's DEEP FIBER SOLUTIONS system has significantly lower power requirements than competing systems and requires only a single fiber (as opposed to separate upstream and downstream fibers). As a result, the Company believes that its DEEP FIBER SOLUTIONS system, in certain new network buildouts, such as multiple dwelling units ("MDUs"), can be currently deployed at a cost comparable to the cost of deploying a copper-based system. In addition, the Company believes that the lifetime cost of its DEEP FIBER SOLUTIONS system will be significantly lower than copper-based systems due to the inherently lower maintenance requirements of fiber-based systems....**" messages.yahoo.com Again, it is MRVC's duplexer and triplexer that connect here. Note the reference to "single fiber" here: ""In 1996 MRVC introduced a fiber duplexer that permits the transmission of voice and data over a single optical fiber, effectively doubling the capacity of each fiber." techstocks.com

To: BlueCrab who wrote (16348)	10/18/1999 11:37:00 PM
From: Dee Jay	Respond to of 42804

Ascend/Lucent is built on sand dredged (fully compacted and engineered) from San Francisco Bay. Though that building didn't exist 10 years ago others in the same industrial park did and only one had any damage and it was small. That's because the soils engineering report required that foundations be prestressed concrete in a manner that would ride whatever movement there was, and the walls were so engineered with that in mind. The ground has the capability of "liquifying" with the migration of water from the water table but there were only a few "sand boils" throughout the area which also encompasses some new and recent subdivisions. I was a purchaser of a house to be built and read the soils engineering reports which specified the nature of construction required for that type of soil and also the reports which were done after the soils engineers and others investigated the damage and earth movement caused by the Loma Prieta earthquake exactly 10 years ago. Thus, if they are in any sort of industrial park constructed in the last 15-20 years ago the buildings should take into consideration the geophysical forces likely to bear on them in all but the worst sort of earthquakes. Chatsworth isn't that far from the epicenter of the earthquakes in the San Leandro Valley (Northridge in particular) so there is some risk but if the buildings have been constructed in the last 10 years or so it will take a lot to cause severe damage to them. IMHO Dee Jay