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To: Little Investor who wrote (1893)	4/3/1998 1:48:00 AM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12623

I'm pretty sure QWST is running 8 or 16 channel OC-192 from Nortel. Probably best to ask the man who rode it up 50 points.(pre-split) He would know better than I. Mr Bagwell?

To: Little Investor who wrote (1893)	4/3/1998 5:37:00 PM
From: Tim Bagwell	Respond to of 12623

<<Are there fiber networks out there that use OC-48 or OC-192, and need 16 times or higher multiples of bandwidth in the near term?>> Qwest put out OC-192 because they were laying new fiber and so why not buy the highest capacity while you're at it. But most of the fiber in use is older fiber that will not support OC-192 very well. I think that most deployment will be for 16 channel systems for some time. Of course, they want to know that they can easily scale up to more channels in the future as demand warrants. But you have to imagine the enormity of the software needed to monitor and manage these networks. It's a huge problem that has not been solved. Until the management issues are under control I think you wont see many more than 16 channels actually being deployed initially.