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To: JohnG who wrote (10827)	11/21/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Todd Bishop	Respond to of 54805

JohnG, LUMM is working on this as well and is ripe for the picking. Most people I talk to who are already Lucent customers are concerned that they are using mirrors to do it. Think about the maintenance and reliability of such a method. I believe there will be all-optical solutions which will make more sense and LUMM's "optical chips" sound promising although Lucent's has the huge advantage of being ready sooner for mass production. For Cisco, they still have some time to figure it out before they are at risk in the markets they currently dominate. The hunger for bandwidth is substantial but it isn't as high in Cisco's traditional Enterprise and smaller markets. That will continue to be their bread and butter as they attempt their move into Lucent's world. Can anyone compare for us the differences between Cisco's Internetwork Operating System and Lucent's equivalent OS? I am very familiar with Cisco's IOS but have never worked with Lucent's. Cisco's IOS is fantastic for allowing me to create my own programs to propagate router configuration changes or upgrades across hundreds of routers. Cisco is perfecting their own mgmt software to permit such large scale reconfigurations. Without the IOS, my staff would need to increase 2-3 times it's current size. Cisco does need to get on their horse if they plan to beat Lucent in the telco market I'd agree. Todd

To: JohnG who wrote (10827)	11/21/1999 1:44:00 PM
From: mauser96	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Lucent's WaveStar LambdaRouter is a neat bit of technology (if it proves reliable) but hardly changes the need for most of the products built by Cisco. As the name implies, it is simply a device for switching light wavelengths. It doesn't alter the need for routers and switches to read and direct the information contained in digital form in those wavelengths. We are still very far away from all optical networking. Translation from photons to electrons and vice versa will be with us for decades.