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To: Ausdauer who wrote (1975)	3/14/1999 12:49:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3299

AFCI has a hidden asset with their investment in Cerent Corp....perhaps they have some long term growth plans for the company using Cerent technology. From BANDWIDTH Cover Story March 8, 1999 MEETING AT THE MIDDLE (http://www.internettelephony.com/archive/bandwidth1999/bandwidth%5F3.8.99/band%5Fcover.htm) "...ASC's RBOX Multiservice Aggregator may be one of the earliest in an emerging field of aggregation devices that will allocate bandwidth from the transport networks. The trend toward developing such systems may have started years ago, however, with the emergence of digital loop carrier systems, such as Advanced Fibre Communications' UM 1000. These systems were first deployed mostly in smaller, independent networks to serve as bandwidth hubs but later showed up in larger networks to help move bandwidth through increasingly complex routing configurations. Aggregators are perhaps more recent evolutions of solutions designed to meet this same need in the advanced network scenarios of ICPs. In addition to aggregators like the RBOX, multiservice nodes based on Sonet ring architectures are another expression of the aggregation trend. Cerent Corp., a two-year-old company based in Petaluma, Calif. (AFC is a neighbor as well as an investor), is pursuing aggregation efforts on that level with its Cerent 454 multiservice Sonet transport platform. "It's definitely not an access device. We don't ring the phones," says Terry Brown, vice president of field operations at Cerent. "We will be fed by access devices and help them plug into a high-capacity network." Like other companies, Cerent sees an overall network evolution toward optical networks with a large amount of IP traffic concentrated at the edge of the network. However, getting to the end of that evolution is difficult for carriers that might be deploying Sonet gear of different bit rates at many different points on the transport network. This makes the act of carrying bandwidth from the network core to the access network much more complicated than it needs to be..." ===================================================================== For good information regarding industry developments check out this site: (http://www.internettelephony.com/). Also, SI has a thread called LAST MILE' TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here (https://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=4754). ===================================================================== Not much news coming out of AFCI in the past few weeks. EKS