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To: JustTradeEm who wrote (6753)	3/3/2001 2:08:48 AM
From: RinConRon	Respond to of 19633

JB, Playing the devil's advocate, is it possible that Corvis does not have/can not obtain full patent protection on their optical technology? I don't know what the answer is as I'm not well qualified to research patents. But I agree with you, if I had the all optical answer I would stick it in Macy's window for the world to see. I'm intrigued by this company. Ron

To: JustTradeEm who wrote (6753)	3/3/2001 11:53:32 AM
From: Tom Hua	Respond to of 19633

but if I had the all optical solution, I'd be showing it on every street corner ... LOL, JBinPa, you do that if you have Krispy Krem donuts. There're limited customers for CORV's all-optical switch. CORV is not hesitant showing to its customers and potential customers for field trials and eventual commercial deployment. As for the highly concentrated customers in the early days of a high tech company, it's quite common.For example CIEN had just 1 customer (Sprint) in the beginning, SCMR 1 customer (Williams), RBAK 1 major customer (UUNet/MCI), AVCI no customer, JNPR, etc etc... And then the list of customers began to expand and expanded quickly. Regards, Tom