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To: James Fulop who wrote (7774)	11/17/1999 11:08:00 AM
From: James Fulop	Respond to of 12623

An yet another... >>The great surplus of bandwidth that DWDM has brought forth is creating an unprecedented operations bottleneck, according to Denny Bilter, director of marketing at Ciena (www.ciena.com). Carriers are spending more money than they are making with their new network gear (Figure 1). The problem is exacerbated by the fact that very few vendors offer carriers edge-to-core solutions. Because so much coordination needs to take place, "DWDM has actually increased the time it takes to turn up a circuit," Bilter notes. Rounding out the vendor?s portfolio, Ciena?s edge/access product, the EdgeDirector 500 multiservice transport platform (formerly the Omnia AXR 500), will be commercially available this quarter and is in trial with five customers, Bilter says. The MultiWave Core Director intelligent optical core switch will be rolled out in first quarter 2000. Ciena remains one of the few vendors to have penetrated the metro DWDM market. Cable & Wireless (www.cwplc.com) and France?s Completel (www.completel.fr) are deploying Ciena?s MultiWave Metro DWDM system in their networks, according to Bilter.<< americasnetwork.com