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To: James Fulop who wrote (7751)	11/7/1999 7:26:00 PM
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Article... >>Ciena Appears to be in Leadership Position In Ilec/IXC Metro DWDM Market 11/4/99 At present, Ciena Corp. (Linthicum, MD) seems to be in the best position of all the manufacturers to take advantage of the U.S. public ILEC/IXC metro DWDM market, according to Trans-Formation projections. However, the terribly slow movement toward this technology by such customers, especially the RBOCs, may allow other suppliers to take over a leadership position. The U.S. ILEC/IXC metro DWDM market will only grow from about $85 million in 2000 to about $415 million in 2004, says Trans-Formation. Ciena's advantages include the following: perceived as a leader in metro DWDM focused solely on optical networking and does not cross-compete other solutions such as SONET or optical fiber solid track record with metro DWDM deployment large enough in size to ensure adequate manufacturing production ability to offer a full turnkey system and network implementation. This last advantage can be very important with even large IXCs in cases where engineers are pre-occupied with construction of their long-haul networks. Moreover, by combining the customer's staff with experience on local operations along with Ciena's implementation arm in Atlanta, the learning curve at the carrier with metro DWDM deployment can be shortened. Trans-Formation, an independent research and consulting firm, recently published ILEC/IXC Metro DWDM Market Brief. The report includes in-depth interviews with experts at large local exchange and interexchange carriers.<< fiberopticsonline.com{857966D5-916F-11D3-9A6A-00A0C9C83AFB}&Bucket=Latest+Headlines