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To: Douglas Nordgren who wrote (1649)	11/22/1999 2:32:00 AM
From: Douglas Nordgren	Respond to of 4808

All-Optical next-gen internet not that far away: Qwest Communications to Deliver Next Generation Internet Services Faster And at Lower Cost Over U.S. Network First All-Optical, Coast-to-Coast Network Will Increase Capacity Over World's Largest, Completed Fiber Network Key Network Benefits: -- New optical technology will reduce operating costs up to 70 percent -- Decrease the number of network regeneration points by as much as 90 percent -- Reduce backbone provisioning cycles as much as 95 percent, enabling activation of new services for customers in a matter of hours instead of months -- Unlock massive bandwidth that could simultaneously transmit more than 100 times the traffic of every broadcast channel worldwide, and still have capacity to spare. biz.yahoo.com Slated for deployment in the first half of 2000, this expansion of Qwest's market leading 18,500-mile completed fiber network exploits the latest optical technology to deliver an industry-breakthrough architecture, decreasing the number of network connection points up to 90 percent and provisioning times by as much as 95 percent. By leveraging such radical new efficiencies, Qwest will not only provide customers with unprecedented capacity, but will offer it much more quickly, in many more increments and at a lower cost. Qwest, the first company to deliver a nationwide Optical Carrier (OC)-192 speed network over a SONET architecture, will now be first to deliver the first coast-to-coast, all-optical Internet Protocol network at OC-192 and beyond -- all while preserving and extending the reliability associated with SONET.