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To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (15606)	12/28/2000 6:55:45 PM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24042

Not surprisingly, the biggest change in 2001 won't be on how much carriers spend, but on where they spend it. Accelerating a trend that took full bloom last year, phone companies plan to buy more equipment for optical networks best suited for data and Internet traffic. Optical networks, which are composed of glass strands and transmit signals via light waves, are supplanting century-old, circuit-switched copper networks based on less-efficient electrical impulses. Do I hear the first hesitant notes to a new song????????? Pat