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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (4574)	1/29/2000 8:29:00 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14638

Cry for bandwidth getting louder, Nortel chief says Sat Jan 29 00:51:00 EST 2000 Jan. 28, 2000 (Electronic Engineering Times - CMP via COMTEX) -- WASHINGTON - The escalating demand for bandwidth will only continue to rise as businesses adjust to Internet-based operations, John Roth, the chief executive officer of Nortel Networks, said in the opening keynote for the ComNet trade show here last week. As with much of the communications industry, Nortel's latest thrust is in the metropolitan ring, where traffic, particularly from businesses, is consolidated before being shipped out to the WAN. There, much of the bandwidth demand can be fed by optical networking, as the technology continues to double in bandwidth-per-fiber every nine to 12 months, Roth said. Much of that growth is due to advances in wave-division multiplexing, which allows a fiber-optic cable to carry multiple signals, each on its own wavelength of light. For the metropolitan market, that means each customer could be assigned a different wavelength on a single fiber, and Roth mentioned Nortel's Optera Metro product as a means of doing just that. Each wavelength can provide up to 2.5 Gbits/second of bandwidth and a carrier can even sell each wavelength on a per-use basis, Roth said. Demand for this bandwidth will rise as the "second wave" of Internet business evolves, Roth said. Companies are done with the experimentation stage-making hastily assembled Web sites as adjuncts to the business-and are starting to re-create their operations around the Web. For example, Nortel itself is taking in $250 million in revenue per month on the Web and is delivering 12,000 software downloads per month, Roth said. A fully Web-oriented business will have to maintain a human touch, Roth said. He described using Internet Protocol telephony to add a salesperson contact to e-commerce: The customer could complete most of a transaction, then contact a human being to discuss questions and concerns.