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To: craig crawford who wrote (1447)	2/23/1998 6:36:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 12623

Corning boosts fiber-optic cable capacity Reuters Story - February 23, 1998 13:33 %ELI %TEL %US %ELC GLW V%REUTER P%RTR SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb 23 (Reuters) - Corning Inc, the world's leading maker of optical fiber, said Monday it has introduced a new fiber and optical components capable of multiplying by fourfold the speed and information-carrying capacity of telecommunication networks. In a statement, Corning said its new fiber can transmit information on multiple channels, with each channel capable of operating four times faster than a conventional fiber. In addition to offering faster speed, the so-called LEAF fiber is also capable of transmitting more information through a single channel than conventional fibers. A glass fiber is about the size of a human hair and is capable of carrying in excess of 10 billion bits of data per second. A Corning spokesman said the new products are the result of design improvements that have expanded the light-carrying capacity at the center of each glass fiber by about 36 percent. "LEAF effectively quadruples the carrying capacity of a single lane on the information highway," said Wendell Weeks, senior vice president and general manager of Corning's Opto- Electronics unit. Corning also said that LEAF fiber can transmit signals with significantly less distortion than conventional fibers. As a result, a clean, clear signal can travel farther along a span of LEAF fiber before it needs to be regenerated by an electrical regenerator, reducing overall network costs. The new Corning fiber was unveiled at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference underway here this week. Corning, based in Corning, N.Y., had 1997 year revenues of $4.1 billion.