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To: ftth who wrote (20579)	3/31/2007 4:15:59 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Hi ftth, What you may also be recalling, however vaguely, although not from five, but six or seven years ago, which was about a year after your creation of this forum, is several telephone conversations we had discussing many of these very principles. To jog your memory (not that I think it's necessary), you may recall the optical power reflection scheme that Lucent had proposed that would use a splitter and a mirror at the optical termination unit (customer premises) to send half the signal to the receive logic and launch the other half back to the central office or head end after being modulated by customer data. That piece of science aside, at the time, the state of the art of wavelength stability in the upstream direction had not progressed far enough yet, nor had the price points fallen to the point that would support consideration of first generation devices yet. We left off by noting: "Some day." It appears that that "some day" is imminent. Getting back to the PR at hand, I'm not entirely clear on every point it makes, either. At best, it's served to reawaken me to several principles I'd long considered "futures," and cause for further investigation, fwiw. FAC ------