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To: Dr. Seuss who wrote (9238)	2/9/1999 4:13:00 PM
From: Afaq Sarwar	Respond to of 10479

Dr. Seuss, Are you really that guy "Dr. Seuss", or just pretending to be one. By the way, some one has to sell for some one else to be able to buy. That is true wether the price is going up or down. On a second thought, you cannot be that guy. Afaq Sarwar

To: Dr. Seuss who wrote (9238)	2/9/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: Brian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10479

<<Even with the price going up, whole lotta sellin' goin' on...>> Good point, it does look like there were more transactions at the bid, rather than the ask. You could probably look at any tech stock today and see that, but how many had an up day? Look's to me like we are in a trading range between 11 1/2 and 18. You think we will break out of the 11 1/2 side! Can you guess which side I think we will break out of? Brian As Auric already found out: An alternative way of translating wideband into narrowband signaling is to transmit the ATM signaling to a SONET access multiplexer. The SONET multiplexer then communicates with a DWDM system, which uses narrowband signaling. The Osicom and FORE system eliminates the need for SONET. An ATM signal can be transmitted straight to the optical layer. This Osicom system could generate a savings for carriers that might otherwise buy SONET multiplexers and management software. "I think this solution is indicative of the growing interest in skipping the SONET layer in a carrier's network and having datacom communicate directly with the optical layer," says Barry Flanigan, senior analyst at Ovum Inc., a London consultancy. "I think we will see data networking and optical networking increasingly intertwined. We will see companies getting together to develop these types of technologies. Cisco [CSCO] and Ciena [CIEN] have been working on routers and DWDM systems that interoperate." SONET will not disappear from carrier networks anytime soon. In fact, carriers will continue to rely on the technology since it already is installed on a widespread basis. But, Flanigan says metropolitan and long-haul DWDM will be seen as a serious alternative to SONET in the coming years. One thing is for sure: The metro DWDM market remains in its infancy. Carriers have hardly begun considering DWDM for urban deployments, and still fewer enterprises have set their sites on it. However, Ken Kelly, senior analyst at Dataquest of San Jose, Calif., says there is a market for Osicom's and FORE's DWDM solution. "A lot of companies are going toward ATM in their backbones," he says "DWDM is a logical connection for in between ATM networks, so I could see sales developing for FORE."