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To: mrclinton who wrote (49614)	7/10/1998 4:22:00 AM
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Ascend's optical internetworking drive gathered steam this week with a pair of announcements. The company unveiled an agreement with Deutsche Telekom Systemloesungen GmbH to provide its GX 550 ATM "Smart" Core Switches for use in the Gigabit Testbed operated by Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN). The DFN network is a computer-based communications infrastructure for research, science, education, and culture in Germany. The addition of the Ascend hardware will enable the DFN to provide STM-16/OC-48 ATM core connections for the delivery of video, voice, and data traffic to German universities and research centers. This agreement means that Ascend has three deals in the place for use of the GX 550 in an optical network. The other pacts are with Williams Communications and Frontier Corp. in the U.S. The Williams partnership produced the second piece of good news this week when Williams announced the successful completion of interoperability tests between the GX 550 and WDM equipment from Pirelli. Similar interoperability tests are underway with Ciena hardware. Interestingly, most of the WDM equipment currently in the Williams network comes from Nortel - and Williams sources interviewed at the recent SUPERCOMM show in Atlanta said that no interoperability tests were currently envisioned using Nortel equipment. broadband-guide.com This Week in Fiber Week of June 26 Summaries of the week's major news in fiber-optic technologies from across the globe. By Stephen Hardy, editor in chief, Lightwave