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Technology Stocks : Ciena (CIEN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pass pass who wrote (10585)	3/7/2001 7:26:10 AM
From: jghutchison	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12623

Pass pass, That is just about as simplistic an argument one can make. I think you can do a whole lot better than that. Jack Hutchison

To: pass pass who wrote (10585)	3/7/2001 7:27:59 AM
From: James Fulop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12623

>>According to IBD, the reason that CIEN is doing well while NT suffers is that CIEN sells to Sprint which is fiber-poor; NT sells to Worldcom which is fiber-rich. So it's just a matter of time when CIEN warns because if Worldcom is not expanding, Sprint will slow down too.<< There are a lot of assumptions there. I'm not so sure Sprint builds out its network just to stay ahead of one competitor these days. Also that assumes CIEN relies so much on Sprint that other customer network builds and new customers will not take up the slack created by this suggested Sprint slowdown. (Sprint is still a >10% customer but the days of it being the sole customer or a >40% are long gone, although I am not sure what the exact % is today as that exact number is not given out and changes each quarter...) Finally the reason CIEN is doing well is far more complex than just that it is selling to Sprint. PS Do you have a link to the original article? Thanks.