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To: The Philosopher who wrote (12885)	1/21/2000 12:29:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

You will enjoy reading this article about Optical "Upstarts" and "Old Farts" pathfinder.com For Cisco, acquiring was the quick route to success in the optical market, so it swallowed hard and paid the price. (Nortel, too, is buying in to supplement its line of optical products. Lucent, by contrast, is looking to develop its optical systems in-house.) Old Farts: Cisco, Lucent, Cienna, Nortel Upstarts: Alidian, Corvis, Optical Networks, Redback, Sycamore My bias is naturally with the "old farts" <g>