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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (5679)	10/26/1999 12:14:00 AM
From: PaperChase	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Someone help out a newbie. I've been reading about Level 3's ambitions for voice over IP and how this approach frees up bandwidth. Fine, I understand this concept. But this led to my confusion about how telcos presently route long distance voice calls (circuit switched) over their fiber backbone. Question: When circuit switched voice calls are sent over fiber, does each call have a dedicated bandwidth on a DWDM system? If so, does 1 voice call tie up an entire channel on DWDM system? Thanks.