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To: James Fulop who wrote (7773)	11/17/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: James Fulop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12623

And another article mentioning Ciena and Williams... >>Executives from Ciena Corp. and the company's new customer, Williams, anchor presentations on state-of-the-art optical networks, while Qtera and Corvis founders speak to all-optical, ultra-long distance network architectures. Ciena's Steve Alexander, VP and chief technical officer, acknowledges that the physics for 16 Tb/s transmission is available, but customers are not demanding it yet. In the meantime, adding line cards to existing systems comprises a brisk business, he says.<< fiberopticsonline.com{581BC931-99E2-11D3-9A6C-00A0C9C83AFB}&Bucket=HomeFeaturedArticles

To: James Fulop who wrote (7773)	11/18/1999 7:57:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12623

James, Williams does seem to be out in front in some ways. If one has a notion that they might want to enter the transparent optical space in the WAN, there are few other alternatives at this time, where lambdas can be attained without major arm twisting. And it doesn't hurt them that they have a fiber swap relationship with MFNX. Certainly, the last place one would go for pure optical across WAN distances is to one of the big three. I think that they are on to something here. And more power to them for stepping up to the plate. Regards, Frank Coluccio