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To: Mark Oliver who wrote (2640)	2/14/1999 6:42:00 AM
From: Hiram Walker	Respond to of 4134

Mark, well when the signals are clear its way too late. Anyway, there is a great chance this year will be tremendously profitable,and this quarter is usually a down quarter(due to winter inactivity). If HLIT can post good revenues and earnings,it might be wise to jump back in. All the bad times are basically behind them,the future is here now for MetroDWDM. The upgrades were for 750 mhz systems,but they have not activated the plant for 2-way. That is where HLIT comes in,and makes a lot of money. Also the cost of production of new product crushes earnings,it took a long time to get Transcend and the Scalable Optical Node into full production. Now that cost is also behind them,the R&D will continue,but the profits should be there hopefully. Not a bad move to sell,I hold for 20 years,I have 18 more to go. Tim

To: Mark Oliver who wrote (2640)	2/14/1999 6:53:00 AM
From: Hiram Walker	Respond to of 4134

Mark, remember we have new customers in the US,due to a new sales staff,the old one stunk. RCNC,CMCSK,and Charter comm, are all new customers. Here is an article about RCNC,which HLIT is helping to build. Thursday February 11, 10:15 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: RCN Corporation RCN Now Serving More Than A Half Million Internet Customers Company Marks Milestone By Naming JavaNet Co-Founder David Epstein President of Internet Operations PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- RCN Corporation (Nasdaq: RCNC - news) announced today that it had eclipsed a longstanding goal of providing Internet services to more than half a million subscribers. The company also named former JavaNet co-founder David Epstein to serve as President of its Internet Division. In this role, Epstein will oversee all aspects of RCN's Internet business, including product development, implementation and support. He will pay particular attention to growing RCN's already formidable Internet customer base and the steady migration of existing dial-up customers to RCN's high- speed access provisioned over the company's state-of-the-art fiber optic network. ''Now that we have successfully integrated RCN's four major ISP acquisitions, and officially launched the RCN.com Internet brand, we are going to focus on aggressively building the Internet side of our business,'' said RCN Chairman and CEO David C. McCourt. ''Having already built one of the Northeast's most successful and well respected ISPs, David Epstein is the perfect person to lead RCN in this effort.'' RCN emerged as a major ISP entity in 1998, amassing a large and loyal customer base in the densely populated Boston to Washington, D.C. corridor through strategic acquisitions and strong internal growth. Because the company is deploying its own advanced fiber optic network throughout this region, RCN is in the unique position of being able to offer highly-reliable Internet services to the residential market over its own facilities. ''In the coming year, as we continue to attract new Internet customers, we will look to leverage our growing customer base and the excess network capacity that will allow for the seamless launch of new revenue-generating Internet applications over our state-of-the-art broadband platform,'' Epstein said. About the Network RCN's True Local Network is a unique broadband fiber optic platform capable of offering the full suite of communications services -- including voice, video and high-speed Internet -- to residential customers. The network employs SONET ring backbone architecture and localized nodes built to ensure its state-of-the-art fiber optics travel to within 900 feet of RCN customers, with fewer electronics and lower maintenance costs than existing local networks. Upon completion, RCN's East and West Coast local fiber optic networks will serve an area comprising nearly 40% of the U.S. residential communications market, but just 6% of its geography. Tim

To: Mark Oliver who wrote (2640)	2/17/1999 5:36:00 AM
From: Hiram Walker	Respond to of 4134

Mark, here is another company using HLIT's MetroLink DWDM system,and look at the answer they gave,WOW! CMCSK is in our fold,and loves us,Paul Allen at Charter is gonna be a big buyer. Tuesday February 16, 8:43 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Comcast Deploys Harmonic Lightwaves' METROLink DWDM System in Digital Upgrade METROLink Allows Sarasota, Fla. System to Provide Digital Services SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1999--Harmonic Lightwaves, Inc. (Nasdaq:HLIT - news) today announced that its METROLink(TM) Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) system is being deployed by Comcast Corp. in its Sarasota, Fla. system as part of an upgrade. In this system, METROLink is being used to upgrade the return path from the hubs to the headends. METROLink will greatly increase the system's return-path capacity by transmitting eight wavelengths over a single fiber. ''In investigating our options for upgrading the return-path portion of this system, we quickly identified DWDM as offering the best mix of performance and price,'' said Andrew Behn, the area engineering manager for Comcast's West Florida cluster. ''After a comparative evaluation, we chose Harmonic's METROLink as our DWDM solution.'' ''This latest deployment of METROLink shows the growing acceptance of DWDM by cable operators,'' said Colin Boyd, Harmonic's vice president of North American sales and worldwide marketing. ''Even for operators who have already upgraded the forward-path portion of their systems, DWDM is a very attractive and cost-effective solution for providing a robust return-path, which is vital for the delivery of two-way services.'' In addition to this deployment by Comcast, METROLink systems are also being used by Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) in many of its systems throughout the nation. About METROLink Harmonic's METROLink system uses DWDM to substantially increase the downstream and upstream bandwidth capacity of hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) networks for the delivery of services that require two-way communication, such as telephony, Internet access and video-on-demand. Additionally, METROLink allows operators to provide narrowcast services directly from the headend, thereby eliminating the need to put costly and complex equipment in hubs. In the METROLink system, each narrowcast wavelength carries several channels of digital subscriber service. The multiple narrowcast wavelengths are transported on a single fiber from the headend to the hub where they are unbundled and individually optically combined with the broadcast signal. The combined two wavelengths of broadcast and narrowcast signals are then sent out to a targeted single node or group of nodes. A similar DWDM arrangement is used to bring the return signal back to the headend. The two-way METROLink system is composed of Harmonic's proven 1550 nm transmitters on the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) grid, gain-flattened optical amplifiers and matching passive components. Tim