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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3576)	8/3/2001 6:08:54 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 46821

On Optical transport While we see many analogies of data networks comparing them to the railway and the highways, these analogies do not capture what is going on on the optical side of transport. Optical transport -as those new technologies are put in place- is the ocean. Bandwidth will be there just like the water mass bridging Europe and the US. But this is dark fiber. To lit up, i.e., carry stuff across, you need containers, forward agents, insurance companies, ships, container terminals and deep sea harbors. That is the costly part of using the ocean as a transport medium. Does it make a sense of talking about water glut? Yes it does if one can't get rid of the old way of thinking. Thinking that is not lateral like mine.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3576)	8/3/2001 6:20:38 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 46821

I once was a switch. We (Siemens, NEC and Bell of Belgium today part of ALA) had built 367 local exchanges in Nigeria back in the 80's. In the main hubs I use to keep a table and diagram of all of them. Any changes in the network was made by me, by crossconnecting Primary Groups, Secondary Groups and whole 960 or 1800 FDM analogue channels. The first time I saw SONET/SDH I thought, I am going redundant now. No need to go down the hierarchy in order to crossconnect. We would get rid of all the Distributors Frames. It didn't happen. The traditionalists still want to terminate the E1's in a DDF block. Is still very much like this today. I saw the room housing transport getting smaller and the DDF room getting bigger!!! Now I am seeing crossconnection going optical and even bypassing electrical at the hubs. I wonder how fast it will take off. Just thinking louder, Frank.