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To: James Fulop who wrote (7983)	2/12/2000 7:10:00 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 12623

That is the very one! Len

To: James Fulop who wrote (7983)	2/14/2000 1:19:00 PM
From: cfoe	Respond to of 12623

Yes, it is an excellent article for those of us looking for which way to play stocks in the optics market.

To: James Fulop who wrote (7983)	2/14/2000 6:27:00 PM
From: Daniel G. DeBusschere	Respond to of 12623

A simple concept - yet hard to grasp for many- Wavelength routing is mentioned in Gilder's Fortune article. Here is how it may work (from Gilder). It will not replace everything - but it will replace a lot. "Hermetically sealed and whisked undisturbed along optical fibers, optical signals seek to avoid the sophisticated processing and protocol shuffling that represent the pride and potentiality of electronic networks. With wavelength routing, perhaps 80% of packets can pass end to end, leaving the electronics to manage only the remaining 20% that must be specially processed. These drop-off bitstreams will be small enough to be handled by realistically scaled electronics, such as a Cisco router or Nortel Edge Switch, serving a single campus, town, skyscraper, AOL server farm, or Global Center data warehouse."