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To: Herb Duncan who wrote (3160)	3/26/2001 12:46:34 PM
From: larry pollock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3891

When Chambers speaks, everyone listens, it is a fact. CNBC's Rick Santelli at the Chicago Board of Trade just talked about the same conversation and related issues. Is there some shift in market share? Who really knows, you might be right. Anyone who owns shares of Alcatel, Nortel, and others, has to listen when Cisco's head man speaks. It is a fact of the market place. Good luck to us all!

To: Herb Duncan who wrote (3160)	3/26/2001 8:16:25 PM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3891

Alcatel Announces New Convergence-Ready Eight Port Workgroup Gigabit Switch With Aggressive Pricing Alcatel Extends its OmniStack Product Line CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 2001--Alcatel (NYSE:ALA - news) today announced a new cost-effective high-performance Gigabit Ethernet switch designed to remove bottlenecks from heavily used workgroup networks. The new switch delivers the performance needed to build next-generation networks ready for voice and data integration, bringing a new level of performance to the Alcatel OmniStack family. The OmniStack 8008 is an eight-port 1000-Base-SX Gigabit Ethernet switch, equipped with features and functions that customers need to lead them into the future of converged networking. The switch aggregates traffic from 10/100 switches such as the OmniStack 6024 and provides non-blocking connectivity to high performance servers. ``The OmniStack 8008 allows us to take servers that would otherwise be 10/100 to the desktop and move them to gigabit speeds,'' said Jim Spitzer, senior network engineer, Rollins College. ``It is a cost effective solution that allows our students better access to key applications such as campus e-mail and provides sufficient network bandwidth to gracefully handle traffic peaks that can occur between classes. The OmniStack 8008 is an ideal solution for users that want to run high performance data traffic and streaming video, as well as voice over IP.'' With sophisticated Quality of Service (QoS) features, the OmniStack 8008 allows the management and control of available bandwidth to specific users, applications and other types of traffic, including wire-speed, standard-based 802.1p and 802.1q with hardware-based queues for differentiated treatment of voice/data traffic. Other QoS features include Internet Group Management Protocol filtering and snooping, broadcast control for the prevention of traffic storms across the network, and 802.3x flow control. ``With the OmniStack 8008, Alcatel brings to its product line a low-cost, convergence-ready, high-performance stackable gigabit switch. With QoS capabilities standard in the OmniStack 8008, customers are assured 'intelligent performance' -- the ability to ensure that mission-critical business applications, voice, and video over IP are not disrupted by traffic of less critical importance,'' said Joelle Gauthier, Alcatel's vice president of enterprise data marketing. The OmniStack 8008 supports an extensive range of management tools including industry standard SNMP traps, RMON probes, port mirroring for real-time, detailed analysis of traffic crossing any port, and Web-based management tools for easy switch configuration access. The OmniStack 8008 supports inherent resiliency features such as Spanning Tree, as well as support for an external redundant power supply and can be connected to network backbone switches such as the Alcatel's OmniCore 5000 and Omni Switch/Router via redundant trunked Gigabit links. For port security, the OmniStack 8008 switch keeps a list of authorized end-user devices per port, preventing unauthorized devices from entering the network. Pricing and availability The OmniStack 8008 is shipping now. The list price for an OmniStack 8008 is $5,995. About Alcatel Alcatel builds next-generation networks, delivering integrated end-to-end voice and data networking solutions to established and new carriers, as well as enterprises and consumers worldwide. With 130,000 employees and sales of $29 billion (EURO $31 billion) in 2000, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on the Internet: alcatel.com. Contact: Alcatel Teresa Mack, 818/878-4620 teresa.mack@ind.alcatel.com Ed Essa, 818/878-5472 ed.essa@ind.alcatel.com