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To: Sector Investor who wrote (8871)	10/14/2000 7:30:07 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

"(that's the techie term for 99.999%)?" Sector- Yes. Uptime is 99.999% of the time. I forget what this equates to over a one year period. I recall it's fairly insignificant amount of downtime. "A mesh means that OA is provisioning a back-up TereScope at each site, pointed to another TereScope in the network, so that there is always a way to route around an outage and get out to the Internet." You may already know this, but this alternative metro route is unrelated to access. In other words, that final access beam to the customers has to be working before you can take advantage of the reliability the mesh network offers upstream of the access connection. "Of course, your concerns apply to this technology in general, including Terabeam and AirFiber, right, not just Optical Access?" Yes. All fiberless players face the same conditions and problems. As a side note, fiberless has been around for a very long time. I believe at least 10 years(point to point) from what I recall. Again I'm assuming there hasn't been massive rollouts due to the reliability issue. Others on this thread know better. -MikeM(From Florida)