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To: Kachina who wrote (3219)	9/16/1998 10:14:00 PM
From: Stash	Respond to of 12623

Kachina, Many years ago while I was still in engineering I worked for 2 separate companies. It was routine to acquire the competitions product, take it apart, evaluate the boards ie. circuits etc. to possibly gain an insight into bettering our products. If boards were encapsulated in black epoxy resin, the device was x-rayed from multiple angles and then meticulously dissected. This was common practice. I do not know if cien had their engineers on site (24hrs/day) for the testing of their equipment at t's lab....same as LU's lab. If they did not, I think there is a high probability Lu's engineers had their grubby fingers all over ciens product. Maybe even creating some problems with the equipment. An posted article talked about a faulty power supply....that started to smoke....HMMMMM. Anyone with a basic understanding of electronics could easily create this problem...difficult to trace. The reason I bring this up is that the cien engineers said these were reliability problems they had not experienced before. Why should T have such problems when the rest of ciens customers are having no problems of this type? If cien was foolish enough to trust T and Lu in privately evaluating their precious technology, they might be awfully naive. Could it be possible? S

To: Kachina who wrote (3219)	9/16/1998 10:16:00 PM
From: Stash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12623

Kachina, Many years ago while I was still in engineering I worked for 2 separate companies. It was routine to acuire the competitions product, take it apart, analyse the boards ie. circuits etc. to possibly gain an insight into bettering our products. If boards were encapsulated in black epoxy resin, the device was x-rayed from multiple angles and then meticulously dissected. This was common practice. I do not know if cien had their engineers on site (24hrs/day) for the testing of their equipment at t's lab....same as LU's lab. If they did not, I think there is a high probability Lu's engineers had their grimmy fingers all over ciens product. Maybe even creating some problems with the equipment. An posted article talked about a faulty power supply....that started to smoke....HMMMMM. Anyone with a basic understanding of electronics could easily create this problem...difficult to trace. The reason I bring this up is that the cien engineers said these were reliability problems they had nodt experienced before. Why should T have such problems when the rest of ciens customers are having no problems of this type? If cien was foolish enough to trust T and Lu in privately evaluating their precious technology, they might be awfully naive. Could it be possible? S