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To: VentureSum who wrote (597)	4/10/2000 3:13:00 PM
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OT - but relevant due to the Fractional Wavelength technology. Zaffire Hangs Its Optical Networking Shingle "The company is developing equipment known as wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs), which expand the capacity of phone networks by splitting beams of light carried on fiber optic cables into multiple wavelengths, or channels. Zaffire's secret sauce is its ``fractional wavelength' technology, which Lavia says allows one channel to carry multiple streams of data traffic simultaneously. It also can spread a single large data transmission over multiple wavelengths, he says. " Anyone care to discuss how this might work? Message 13389525