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To: DenverTechie who wrote (1879)	8/11/1998 9:11:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

DenverTechie, I think you hit the nail on the head concerning the problem/solution with the TITAN product. If they have an all optical cross connect, then AON, when it arrives, is a moot point, I believe. That's good to hear for a Tellabs investor. I ran across the following article (One of Hiram's links) that also talks of other cross connect solutions from other equipment companies. I can just barely understand it. But it appears to be related to your response. It does some name dropping so I thought I would post it for that reason. Thanks, MikeM(From Florida) ___________________________________ Cross-Connections To interconnect every service host and destination, such platforms must take on the complex task of cross-connecting each wavelength or fiber to the appropriate wavelength or fiber at each exchange point. With an eye toward averting a bandwidth and equipment management nightmare, hardware consolidation is a key selling point behind Lucent's WaveStar BandWidth Manager. Lucent claims it can save service providers up to 60 percent in equipment costs, reduce shelf requirements by up to 85 percent, plus offer greater reliability in large central offices by eliminating up to 10,000 coaxial cables (potential points of failure) otherwise needed for discrete equipment connections. Similarly, Alcatel's Optinex 1680 optical gateway cross-connect (OGX), which AT&T also is evaluating, is designed to scale not only capacity (to 1,024 OC-48 pipes to manage broadband WDM, ATM, IP, and Sonet data and voice traffic), but also equipment and associated management systems. It may become common to see up to 2,400 wavelengths converging on one point of presence, says Fred Ellefson, senior marketing and business development manager for Alcatel transport products. "You can try either to manage 2,400 optical ADMs or manage this one broadband cross-connect," he says. Ericsson's newest DWDM system, Erion Networker, is scalable from 16 to 32 wavelengths and also features autonomous protection of optical multiplexer functions via distinct optical subnetworks that are based on optical self-healing rings, as opposed to fully meshed, optical cross-connect networks. Also being integrated into the product is an OADM ability called MuxTransponder to aggregate up to four traffic streams on a single wave without the need for Sonet.