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To: Chris Chang who wrote (6834)	3/23/1999 11:57:00 AM
From: Adrew Thanh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12623

Could this be cntract coming from BellSouth for CIEN... BellSouth Corp. (BLS) 43 7/16 -2 1/8: regional phone carrier is guiding earnings estimates lower for Q1 and Q2 due to higher expenditures connected meeting demand for products; however, company still expects to meet Wall Street estimate of $1.96 for FY99, a 20% increase from 1998 EPS of $1.64 a share.....

To: Chris Chang who wrote (6834)	3/24/1999 12:53:00 AM
From: Oliver Hahn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12623

Chris-- Re: the article at americasnetwork.com I like this: it requires more Ciena equipment, installed all over a city. excerpt is below. Oliver GST Telecommunications Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.) is using the MultiWave Sentry and FireFly DWDM systems in its 13-city Virtual Integrated Transport and Access (VITA) network. The CLEC is using the FireFly in its Las Vegas and Phoenix metro areas. Although it's a point-to-point system, GST is using it in a jury-rigged, ring-like mesh topology, says Steve Hensley, vice president of engineering at GST. "Metro systems will be more advanced and provide us with a ring for drop and insert. That would be more desirable, but in some cases people are not looking for that much redundancy" Hensley says. "There are many applications where a single thread is what they've called for and want to pay for, so we accommodate that using the FireFly." GST is using the metro system to reclaim multiple fibers that it otherwise would have had to run to each customer in the buildings it serves. On a 10-building block, for example, the carrier deploys a FireFly terminal in each building and runs one fiber to each building and puts the traffic of every customer in that building onto its own wavelength on that fiber. When metro products with add/drop functionality are available, GST will be able to run a single fiber down the street and pick up traffic from each building on that same fiber by putting a DWDM ADM box in front of each building, Hensley explains.