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Technology Stocks : Ciena (CIEN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tim Bagwell who wrote (1811)	3/31/1998 7:25:00 AM
From: Baudwalker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12623

A number of folks are not reading beyond the headlines of yesterday's announcement. As indicated in the extract below, the Ciena share is a portion of $25M-$35M over five years. Even at 100% share, this is a drop in the bucket for CIEN ($7M/yr?). "Bell Atlantic plans to spend in the range of $400 to $500 million with both Fujitsu and Lucent, $400 to $460 million with Tellabs and $200 to $260 million with DSC Communications over five years, Bell Atlantic spokesman Ells Edwards said. The spokesman said Lucent and Ciena are roughly splitting a contract worth $25 to $35 million over five years to supply equipment known as dense wave division multiplexers that multiply the capacity of high-traffic fiber optic networks."