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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (867)	1/5/2000 12:34:00 PM
From: James Fulop	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1782

Speaking of fiber-to-the-home, this came out today... >>Optical Solutions Closes $7 Million Financing Round 1/5/00 Fiber-to-the-home solution provider Optical Solutions, Inc.(Minneapolis) completed a $7 million round of senior debt financing, to be funded in equal parts by Comdisco Ventures (a division of Comdisco Inc.) and Western Technology Investment. This funding follows the $16 million Series C preferred funding earlier this year, which included investments from Menlo Ventures, Coral Ventures, St. Paul Venture Capital and Concord Ventures. These sources of capital, along with seed capital funding primarily from Coral Ventures, bring the total amount raised since the company's founding to $31 million. As announced earlier this month, the company is accelerating mass deployment of its FiberPath solution. FiberPath allows telecommunications service providers to economically deliver today's bundled voice, CATV, and high-speed data services, while establishing the core infrastructure to provide tomorrow's enhanced services to each home. FiberPath is the only solution that allows these services to be provided over one highly reliable and secure Passive Optical Network.<< fiberopticsonline.com{EE3ABE70-C2CB-11D3-9A82-00A0C9C83AFB}&Bucket=HomeLatestHeadlines

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (867)	1/6/2000 5:28:00 AM
From: Peter Ecclesine	Respond to of 1782

Hi Frank, CSMA doesn't exist on 10Ge fibers - one for Rx, one for Tx. It will be specified as point-to-point, not a colliding media. My question was whether you thought a colliding CSMA-C??? fiber deployment would cost less initially or operationally than a ring or point-to-point collision-free deployment. petere

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (867)	1/6/2000 8:10:00 PM
From: Regis McConnell	Respond to of 1782

Hi Frank, just tryin' to catch up on the past few wks, don't you fellas ever take a break?;-) Reading your 'node to the home' debate, could the tuneable laser look something like this? patents.ibm.com "But at the neighborhood field node, where I suspect DWDMs on chips will reside (perhaps dynamically tunable ones, at some point), we would see clusters of homes converging, each with their own spectrum allocations, whether they be static or dynamic (dynamically tunable)." Regis