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Technology Stocks : Lucent Technologies (LU) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: t36 who wrote (1290)	1/26/1998 6:56:00 PM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

t, I am probably not the right person to give you the best answer; in fact, the beauty of this technology/product is explicitely expressed in the title--bigger bandwidth. We need fat pipes, period.

To: t36 who wrote (1290)	1/26/1998 8:19:00 PM
From: Ridi J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21876

>>> Lucent's system provides up to 400 gigabit-per-second capacity over a single strand of fiber -- equivalent to carrying the per-second traffic of the entire worldwide Internet over one fiber.>>> This is one example of the scope of this technology. This will be incredibly important as high-speed connections to the home become available. If your surfing speed grows by a factor of 30 (i.e. DSL modems), the whole neighborhood needs a MUCH fatter pipeline to deliver that much data (real time movies, telephony, CD-grade audio, full-screen 30fps videoconferencing with multiple windows, etc), or we'll be staring at that Windows hourglass more than we do now! Same goes for the corporations who want all that stuff on their own private networks, too. Here's what it means to the suits: >>>At this triple-terabit rate, communications service providers can realize *equipment cost savings up to 40 percent* over lower-capacity systems available today from other vendors. AND: >>>Lucent's WaveStar system is also the first to support a simultaneous mix of multi-gigabit speed rates of 2.5 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s over one fiber, and it's the first to support equipment from a variety of vendors transmitting at a mix of these two rates. These capabilities enable carriers to *''pay as they grow,''* adding capacity as needed while leveraging their existing infrastructure (use the stuff they already own!!!). And, as information has become the commodity of the 21st century, this technology reduces the cost of delivering a grain of "electronic wheat" to almost nothing, as stated by: >>>''Lucent is driving down the ongoing cost of transmitting a bit of information close to zero while pushing capacity towards infinity,'' said Gerald Butters. Happy investing!