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To: Lou S. who wrote (11054)	11/11/1999 8:36:00 PM
From: matt dillabough	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

Anybody heard anything on the analyst meeting today MD

To: Lou S. who wrote (11054)	11/11/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: DHB	Respond to of 21876

Good read on the future of optics....... library.northernlight.com NOV 11, 1999, M2 Communications - MURRAY HILL, N. J. -- Scientists from Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), have set a world record, transmitting information at the rate of 160 gigabits (billion bits) a second over optical fiber using a single wavelength, or color, of light. "This experiment represents the world's first practical 160-gigabit system," said Alastair Glass, director of the Bell Labs Photonics Research Lab, "Like today's commercial systems, it uses a semiconductor-based transmitter and demultiplexer. Multiplying 160 gigabits over additional wavelengths, we expect to be able to scale up to many trillions of bits a second in the foreseeable future." The 160-gigabit single-channel transmission demonstration was done over 300 kilometers of Lucent's TrueWave RS fiber, the long-distance fiber with the lowest dispersion slope in the industry. The highest single-wavelength commercial transmission system today carries 40 gigabits per second. "Lucent is committed to delivering the information at the speed of light," said Gerry Butters, president of Lucent's Optical Networking Group. "This demo, along with the products we will be adding to our portfolio over the next few weeks, demonstrates our leadership in the evolution toward all-optical networks and an Internet that is free of the constraints of bandwidth and time Bell Labs, which has garnered more than 2,000 patents in optical technology alone, has been designing networks for 75 years - yet the pace of Bell Labs innovation has never been faster.