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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (659)	12/6/1999 12:38:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1782

Hi Ken, Despite the "one box" appearance of many top end devices, there still actually exists two separate platforms joined together in a kludge-like manner. One slice of the box and its associated software is optically aware [governing internal laser outputs and receiver detection functions, internal dwdm path management, optical x-connect switching, etc.], while the other is electronically aware [concerned with the management of upper Layer 1 [typically Sonet or FC, and up the stack]. I can only surmise that what the author is saying is that as the integration between these two domains evolves within individual network elements (e.g., Tb routers and Optical x-connects) the software kernels which oversee these functions, namely the management of the optical and the electronic processes, will over time meld into one, in a seamless fashion. I'm open to other interpretations. Regards, Frank Coluccio

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (659)	12/18/1999 5:05:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1782

Kenneth Phillips, and Kenneth De Paul, The article in James Fulop's post # 759 answers some of the questions you asked a while ago. A thanks goes to James for the find. I found the article to be consistent with my replies in this regard, and at the same time corroborates my other claims that the industry is playing games with words, "bending" long-established terminology in order to meet marketectural dictates, without straining to enunciate new concepts with new terminology. "Network equipment makers needed to come up with a common management or control mechanism to create an environment in which routers and switches act in unison with transmission gear. "To do this, you have to make routing decisions in more than one domain at the same time," says Greg Merritt, vice president of marketing for the carrier and service provider group at Nortel. In other words, service providers would be able to reach new levels of efficiency if optical networking gear were able to understand the routing decision of packet-based equipment and provision appropriate paths to accommodate traffic."