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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (336)	3/22/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: George T. Santamaria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 626

....Or is it your interpretation that baseband digital signals such as bipolar non-return to zero (T1-T3) and unipolar data signals will play (combine, embed with the optical stream) just as well as RF? This may appear to be a trivial point to you or others, but I view it as a significant quality (as an enabler or as an inhibitor, depending on the answer) for purposes of further discussion. .... If one were to encode NRZ data directly on the link, it would not be an efficient use of the bandwidth. Hence, an intermediate stage of modulation such as 32 or 64 QAM is normally used. On a different point, I have to point out that the LU competition is very real. A small company like SilkRoad is not only attempting to innovate in the optics arena, it is also attempting to provide the networking technology needed to aggregate smaller (OC-3, OC-48 or whatever)data streams into the 100+ Gb data stream. If some numerical advantage to LU is to be realized, then SR cannot make any mistakes in networking. One stupid design decision can put SR at a disadvantage. I guess that what I am saying is that SR should be partnering with someone else and staying out of the networking business. (Just lie you said so many posts ago.)