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To: Gregory Rasp who wrote (4867)	2/21/2000 7:07:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14638

Greg,Thanks for that article. Two sentences in the article demand scrutiny and attention. Right now, for instance, there are no standards for carrying management information in optical networks, so carriers may be forced to retain electrical interfaces so they can pinpoint faults... The only way of avoiding this issue at present is to buy a complete package of switching and transmission equipment from the same vendor - the solution being proposed by Corvis and Nortel's Qtera. Even before the Qtera acquisition, Nortel had announced OPTera - "a complete package of switching and transmission equipment" which would allow the transmission layer to communicate with the switching and routing layer so that bandwidth can be provisioned at points of congestion. In my opinion, Nortel will be first to market with such a complete package. OSDI is very concerned about this development. The whole thrust of OSDI is to develop a standard for integration of the optical layer and the switching layer. Nortel, Lucent and Cisco are not members of OSDI. I don't know whether Ciena is a member.