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To: Duffeck who wrote (25855)	10/22/2000 6:57:51 PM
From: Duffeck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

What the hell does this really mean? Extreme said its product can actually send a maximum of eight gigabits of information at one time at a 10-gigabit speed, rather than the full 10 gigabits at that speed that future products will do. The technology works like this: A device called a WDM module (I think this is MRV's product), when installed in Extreme's switch, sends eight one-gigabit light streams at once over optical fiber. One gigabit is equal to 1 billion bits, the ones and zeros of digital communications. This WDM module gives us the speed of 10 gigabits with the aggregate bandwidth of eight,'' Prodan said. WDM stands for wavelength-division multiplexing quote.bloomberg.com duff