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To: qbull who wrote (15987)	1/6/2001 9:29:35 AM
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Broadband and Optical Networking Growth: Back up the truck? cnnfn.cnn.com cnnfn.cnn.com "Broadband is growing gangbusters and will continue to be another very powerful motivation," he said. "Typically, people don't want to go through the hassle of taking an existing PC and adding the devices to it to make it broadband compatible, so they're buying new PCs with broadband connections on them," Mark Vena Compaq No Optical Illusion ------------------------------- nwfusion.com .......Overlooking these early carrier opportunities could be downright dangerous, says Roger Gullqvist, chief information officer and executive vice president of Swedbank in Stockholm,Sweden. This retail bank - Sweden's largest - is transforming 1,000 branch offices into financial advice centers by furnishing them with high-bandwidth connections from low-cost suppliers deploying DWDM in their backbones and Gigabit Ethernet in their access lines. The high-bandwidth connections - operating at up to 34M bit/sec - let customers watch video marketing material and communicate with Swedbank experts. Sticking with the status quo isn't an option because Internet banking developments are undermining Swedbank's traditional business, Gullqvist explains................... ................. That's the case for Fenwick & West, a San Francisco law firm. It pays "less than $6,000 a month" for 10M-bit/sec Internet access from Yipes. The SONET alternative, T-3, would have cost between $18,000 and $35,000 a month, says Matt Kesner, the firm's chief information officer. The future:COGENT: 1st optical ISP ---------------------------------- cogentco.com is cheaper than copper nwfusion.com The gear in Cogent's network is so efficient and inexpensive compared to traditional copper networks that the company can afford its startling $1,000-per-month 100M bit/sec service. In fact, it is the only service the company will sell, and it will still bring in enough revenue to pay off investors, Cogent says. TA