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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1167)	2/16/2000 12:04:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1782

Frank- I hate to ask a stupid question, but I was out of town(I think?) when the FCC made some type of significant ruling regarding the ILECs and RBOCs plant upgrades. Mainly, "data." Whatever that means nowadays. And it may have something to do with ATM. I vaguely recall some mention of this while we were discussing SBC's Pronto rollout and whether they would have to share their upgraded, ATM to the NGDLC, network. Can you help me out? Thanks. -MikeM(From Florida)

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1167)	2/16/2000 5:05:00 PM
From: James Fulop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1782

Frank and/or anyone: A rumor of JNPR and CIEN getting together came out today, and while there have already been discussions on the financial aspects, I am curious as to know the technical side of this potential story. Does this kind of merger make sense from some of the fundamental trends occurring in networking today? In the past I have read some articles on how terabit routing and optical networking combined may do away with some other parts of the legacy networking infrastructure, but as usual, I have a hard time separating the journalistic hype from the reality of the situation. I guess I am trying to ascertain whether such a combination makes only financial sense, or only networking sense, or both. Any thoughts, comments, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. quote.bloomberg.com