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To: Lalit Jain who wrote (4177)	1/6/2000 11:26:00 PM
From: uel_Dave	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14638

"The story is Nortel's optics beat the pants off of Lucent's optics," cnnfn.com A hot but tough market The market for high-speed telecommunications equipment is booming. Lucent, while the industry leader, is not alone, with competitors such as Cisco Systems (CSCO), Nortel Networks (NT), and Ciena (CIEN) vying to provide telecom infrastructure. All three have been on a buyout binge and Nortel announced another deal on Thursday. "The story is Nortel's optics beat the pants off of Lucent's optics ", said Charles DiSanza, an analyst at Gerard Klauer Mattison. "Lucent's first words out of its mouth [during a conference call Thursday] were this was Lucent's mess-up, not an industry thing."