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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (8610)	9/29/2000 8:45:24 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Re: Optical Access/Edge/Metro - Coarse WDM Estimates "The market for wavelength-division multiplexers (WDMs) in metropolitan networks is taking off. Applications include access lines and connections between points of presence.....Metro WDM gear (including dense and so-called "coarse" WDM devices) is selling well to both local-exchange carriers (LECs) and to interexchange carriers (IXCs). But IXCs are encumbered by existing investments in Sonet infrastructure as well as by tariff regulations and the need to support hundreds of thousands of existing customers per city. lightreading.com Thread- Above is some further information on my guess as to where the next great bottleneck will occur. From my point of view, not an easy market to understand. The stats are perplexing? So IXCs will spend substantially more than ILECs on WDM? So does that mean the ILECs have plenty of bandwidth in their trunking/metro networks? I sure didn't think so. As far as I knew, broadband access rollouts would clog the metro areas. What am I missing? -MikeM(From Florida)