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To: GHowe who wrote (2420)	7/20/2000 9:58:14 AM
From: SecularBull	Respond to of 3873

"The results for the quarter also include a $49 million non-cash charge, the greatest portion of which is due to the company's stock option program. Excluding this charge and the RCN gain, the net loss for the quarter was 79 cents a share." - ZDII

To: GHowe who wrote (2420)	7/20/2000 12:42:52 PM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3873

Bandwidth Bonanza "Won't Happen" Developments in DWDM in recent years have given the impression that the cost of providing bandwidth will soon be so low that there’ll be no point in making a big song and dance about using it efficiently. Guess what? That’s dead wrong, according to a leading light in optical research, Professor David Payne, head of the Optoelectronics Research Center at the University of Southampton in the UK. Payne says it’s vitally important to use bandwidth efficiently because we’re going to run out of it surprisingly fast. “Bandwidth is like health care. You can never have enough,” says Payne, one of the inventors of the Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier. Payne bases his argument on supply and demand calculations that illustrate that growth of Internet traffic will overwhelm telecom infrastructure within the foreseeable future. On the supply side, he sees the following developments boosting bandwidth: - the average cable will have 128 fibers rather than 8 - the number of wavelengths per fiber will rise from 1 to 512 - the bandwidth per wavelength will increase from 2.5 to 40 Gbit/s - mesh will replace ring topologies, doubling effective capacity When all of these effects are multiplied together, they add up to a 204,517-fold increase in the overall capacity of the average telecom network. More than enough for anything? Not so, says Payne, who reckons all of that huge amount of extra capacity will be used up within four years if Internet traffic volumes continue growing at their current rate. Right now, volumes are doubling every 100 days in North America and every 150 days in Europe, according to Payne. There's a strong likelihood that the this rate will increase in the future, as broadband access technologies such as DSL (digital subscriber line) and cable modems become more widely deployed. It’s tough to believe that merely doubling Internet traffic every 100 days would create such a problem, but Payne has a way of illustrating the effect, using an example of grains of rice and a checker board. If a single grain of rice was put on the first square and the quantity was successively doubled on each subsequent square, the last square on the board would have to accommodate more than 18 million, million, million grains of rice, enough to cover the whole of the UK to a depth of more than 30 feet, according to Payne. Payne notes that future developments in telecom aren’t likely to put off the capacity crunch for very long. The latest fiber developments from Lucent Technologies, Inc, for instance, might mean that DWDM systems can be cranked up to enable traffic volumes to be doubled another four times – equivalent to a mere 400 extra days of Internet traffic growth. Hogwash? It sounds like it if you consider how much extra bandwidth an individual could use. If, say, the number of people using the Internet increased 100-fold - which might exceed the population of the planet - then the average person would see a 2,000-fold increase in available bandwidth, according to Payne's supply side calculations. As it happens, that's the rough difference between a 100-Mbit/s Ethernet connection and a dialup modem line. It's hard to believe that everybody will be wired up like that within a few years. By Peter Heywood, international editor, Light Reading lightreading.com . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To: GHowe who wrote (2420)	8/22/2000 10:31:10 AM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3873

Hello, Thread. Just thought I'd bring you an update from the trenches. The bumbling continues out here in the real world of LVLT/Kiewit fiber laying. The strip through our place started this past February, has just been buried, FINALLY. But not without incident. Would you believe the inept clowns doing the work set a fire --albeit a small one, but it was a fire nevertheless outhere in this tinderland of high desert country and did not know who to call or what to do with the shovels they had in their hands? It was UNBELIEVEABLE!!!!! especially living downwind of these hardhats. And this after a 108K acres were consumed just the week before a few miles from here as well but by another suspected source than LVLT it must be noted!!!!! Those of you who believe this job will come in on time "this year" must be the same ones who believed the company's PR that "it would all be completed prior to Y2K<grin>" You DO remember those prognostications as well, right? Oh, well...I'll keep you posted with these semi-annual bulletins. That's because snow will fly here in less than 6 weeks and LVLT has yet to put anything into the finally buried tubes criss-crossing this fragile environ where their legal bills with Uncle Sam are mounting as we speak for all the environmental damage. I still avoid this stock, as I stated back when it was trading at $120 and started to nose dive and got pooh-poohed by those on this thread who only believe what they read that LVLT "publically issues." Lemme see if I have enough fingers to do the math.. 120 fingers then, minus 67 fingers today... means I saved 53 fingers from getting singed on this money pit spec play. But then, I guess there aren't too many acres to burn back in Joisey where they just completed their big "store's open fer biz" announcement, eh? Now before you go roasting my chesnuts on an open fire, remember this: I never have said there wasn't money to be made in this stock "vehicle"...I just stated clearly that I told family and friends who LVLT tromping roughshod through their land to avoid acquiring LVLT as a long term hold back when I first popped up on here attempting to do DD as requested. There will come a day when the revenue potential vs actual moneypit/pouring sand down a rathole interment of cable will make this an attractive stock. But folks, you LTB&H types that were sucked in in these last 6 months were just too danged early, and I mightily suggest STILL are!!! Longs and shorts, are both needed for a good horserace, right, guys? Fortunately, I am neither, altho' this would have been a GRRRRRREAT short. I just wanted my money to work harder quicker in more exciting plays such as, oh, SDLI comes to mind<grin> Back to the trenches...and I'm taking my weenie with me so that don't get roasted either...so, save your slings and arrows for someone who gives a rip what you LVLT specs think on this thread. S'mores anyone? O/49r