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To: Steven Finkel who wrote (204)	3/24/2000 10:40:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 365

Heard any news on a possible Nasdaq listing?

To: Steven Finkel who wrote (204)	3/25/2000 12:10:00 PM
From: Mahatmabenfoo	Respond to of 365

This probably shows how little I know about the prospects of the small fiber players, like FBCE and INVT, but.... Isn't this a market where the big players -- big in manufacturing and big in R&D -- will have an overwhelming advantage? Doesn't Lucent (among others compete with FBCE and why should FBCE should be able to keep up, or find a niche where it can be profitably safe?). - Charles ======================== NET SPEED AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET Scientists at Lucent's Bell Labs have set a new record for transmitting data over fiber-optic cable by moving 3.28 terabits per second of data over 300 kilometers of Lucent's TrueWave optical fiber. At this rate, Lucent's fiber in one second could transmit three times the volume of daily Internet traffic for the whole world. Within years, fiber-optic cable could move tens of thousands of terabits per second of data. This tremendous bandwidth growth will be fueled by the speed of lasers used to encode data and the number of wavelengths a single fiber can carry at once, says AT&T Labs President David Nagel. Researchers are now developing terabit lasers, and the number of pulses a single laser produces is doubling every 18 months. In addition, the number of wavelengths a single fiber can carry at one time is doubling every year. Eighty-wavelength systems are already available, and scientists are working on 1,000-wavelength systems. The Bell Labs' record accounts for less than half a percent of the potential capacity of current optical networks, according to Kerry Vahala, professor of applied physics at the California Institute of Technology. (Wired News, 21 March 2000)