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Technology Stocks : METROMEDIA FIBER NETWORK (MFNX) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (698)	12/9/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Respond to of 1983

fwiw, the muffin is briefly cited here. my apologies if you've already seen this on the FCTF or LMT boards (or, er, the article itself). ----- December 1999 Optics Explode The next wave of optical network equipment promises to take the technology into the last mile Sam Masud, Senior Technology Editor telecommagazine.com White Plains, N.Y.-based Metromedia Fiber Network has targeted certain tier one markets for building a fiber-rich local loop. According to Ron French, Metromedia's vice president of commercial marketing, Metromedia is putting in 864 strands of fiber in each cable and laying multiple conduits within each build to support additional fiber. Although the company's primary business is leasing dark fiber (in October it announced a $500-million dark-fiber deal with Bell Atlantic and a similar $300-million dark-fiber agreement with WinStar Communications), Metromedia also offers managed optical services for enterprise customers using Nortel's 32-channel OPTera metro DWDM technology and Cisco Systems' Catalyst switches for a managed Gigabit Ethernet service. "If an enterprise customer wants to run multiple protocols, such as Gigabit Ethernet or (IBM) ESCON, we can support those protocols. For the user, adding a service becomes a plug-and-play capability," French said.