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Technology Stocks : Ascend Communications (ASND) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clare who wrote (25463)	12/4/1997 1:15:00 AM
From: satish kamat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

That was my guess based on following analysis: <another undisclosed RBOC in the current quarter.> It's not US WEST! U S WEST !NTERPRISE Networking Selects Cisco Dial Access Platforms Business Wire - October 29, 1997 Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced another order for the company's dial access platforms. U S WEST !NTERPRISE Networking intends to deploy over 200,000 Cisco dial ports for its U S WEST.net consumer and business Internet and dial access services over the next five year. BellSouth it's not new! Sprint,BellSouth,GTE,Telecom Finland,Swiss telecom,Intermedia praise GX550 & CBX50 : ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct.6,1997 Bob Fulghum, Fast Packet Product Manager, BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. BellSouth will use Ascend's Frame Relay modules for the CBX 500 to provide the necessary DS3 density needed for continued scaling of our data services offering. Could it be SBC Comunications ? Ashby has over 20 years of financial management experience. Two years ago, he became CFO of the Pacific Telesis Enterprise Group. When Pacific Telesis, a holding company which owned Pacific Bell, was acquired by SBC Communications Inc., he became vice president and CFO of Pacific Bell. 5) TBA this 9704 qtr: PacBel purchases several thousand DSLTNT ports at $1,000/port and DSLPipes 6) AT&T's telco side, PacBell and LU have been evaluating GRF1600/400. Expect some contract announcement in 9801. Most likely it is the third largest RBOC. By the way, Ascend plans to add 200 people to its worldwide payroll this quarter, primarily in research and development, Ejabat said. He added it has taken a full year to swallow Cascade.