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To: country bob who wrote (31615)	2/1/2000 7:56:00 AM
From: Joseph J Randazzo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Morning all, Came across this article about Qwest's network employing products by Cisco and Cerent and others; lw.pennwellnet.com <<Qwest unveils all-optical-network plans By Stephen Hardy Qwest Communications International Inc. (Denver) has placed its optical future in the hands of a pair of startup companies as it embarks on an aggressive move into all-optical networking. When completed in the third quarter of this year, the carrier's new Internet-protocol (IP) network should significantly cut operating costs, network complexity, and service provisioning times, while increasing overall capacity and flexibility of service provision, according to a Qwest spokesperson. Qwest expects to begin equipment deployment this spring. The move to an all-optical network will provide several advantages, according to Vab Goel, a vice president of Qwest and head of the company's new Emerging Technology Division. Qwest expects the use of all-optical equipment will cut operating costs by 70%, decrease the number of network regeneration points by as much as 90%, and reduce backbone provisioning cycles by 95%. The carrier will increase its IP transmission speeds to OC-192 (10 Gbits/sec), thus boosting network capacity significantly over its current OC-48 (2.5-Gbit/sec) infrastructure. Qwest has tapped a pair of emerging optical-networking companies--Corvis Corp. (Columbia, MD) and Qtera Corp. (Boca Raton, FL)--to provide photonic transmission equipment for the backbone upgrade. At the same time, it plans to extend its current relationships with Nortel Networks (Brampton, ON, Canada), which supplies much of Qwest's current optical-networking gear, as well as with Cisco Systems (San Jose, CA) and Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) for data switching. Qwest will turn to another startup, Siara Networks, for optical IP transmission gear for its 25-city metropolitan networks, as well as Cerent Corp., recently acquired by Cisco. Qwest also has an equity position in Juniper Networks (Mountain View, CA), a startup in the terabit IP switching space.>> have a grate day, Joey R.