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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3694)	8/15/2001 9:56:53 AM
From: TheStockFairy	Respond to of 46821

<<<Along with OSS/OAMP/Inventory/Electronic Bonding between carriers; the use of traditional sales agents as a starter strategy (as you also hinted, yesterday); a common control signaling and surveillance protocol similar to an SS/7 between optical nodes (now called control plane) for connection setup and supervision; UNI/GMPLS; and much more. I think we're looking at a brand new overlay that's going to prove to be quite an opportunity here>>> The cheapest and least risky product strategy is to leverage your existing assets into different market applications. If you had no existing assets and if you were going to start from scratch, you could negotiate efficient carrier contracts and buy instead of build. If there are routes that are underbuilt (Dallas to Chicago), you build them after the routes are profitable and you groom the circuits you have resold. Realistically, you could buy from an energy company (depending on your financial position) under the GTC contract or the Comptel agreement and resell the product on the strength of the SLAs alone. I have a feeling that some of these places would take a pretty hefty loss on their installed fiber just to gain some revenue.