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To: Guy Gordon who wrote (6241)	2/13/2000 11:51:00 PM
From: Kent Rattey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24042

This new optical gear is different from the conventional Sonet equipment that has been around since the '80s. That Sonet gear was designed to carry voice; the new optical products are designed to carry all types of traffic. That reduces the need for asynchronous transfer mode or routers to be installed in networks, allowing carriers to deliver faster services, more quickly, and for less money. Services based on multiservice provisioning platforms should give customers three benefits: better price/performance, low latency, and flexibility informationweek.com Vendors also are trying to boost the capacity of networks by developing technologies that pack more traffic inside each wavelength. Carriers now use synchronous optical network and asynchronous transfer mode to carry traffic over fiber. As more optical equipment becomes available, carriers may eliminate Sonet and ATM altogether and connect routers directly to wavelengths. Or, vendors may reengineer Sonet so that it's more data-friendly. Such advances promise to bring low-latency, high-bandwidth services to the masses for the first time. That's going to ramp up Internet traffic volumes enormously, fueling demand for still more optical networking innovations. informationweek.com