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To: GST who wrote (136495)	1/3/2002 6:43:30 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

All that fiber was laid at the same time because the construction cost of digging and covering another a thousand-mile trench. They originally needed one or two fibers in each cable, but lay a cable of 48 or more strands for essentially the same cost. So that's what they did. There is a lot of expensive switches from the Telliums, Ciena's and ONI's that need to be attached to that fiber as bandwidth demand continues to grow. Fiber capacity is not bandwidth capacity. Bandwidth is the commodity to follow, not fiber. Just because we all may have eight wires into our homes from the phone pole doesn't mean we all have four lines. Equipment must be attached at both ends.