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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4584)	4/11/1999 4:32:00 PM
From: Lea Hwang Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30916

"Would you consider DWDM an analog or a digital technology?" I consider DWDM as digital technology as it tries to encode more information into a single optical channel by combining multiple tightly controlled wavelengths of laser light onto a single fiber path. "A funny thing happens, though. We keep going back to analog technology anyway as some of the greatest means of enabling all of these wonderful things." You are absolutely right on this one. The way I look at this is that analog technology enabled the IP technology and the latter eventually turns around and replaces it - however, this will take a while though as we have been relying on analogy technology for such a long time and all the infrastructures are already there... The most economical solution at this juncture is to adopt the "analog-digital-analog" solution... In some sense, some developing countries will reap greater benefits from the forthcoming internet boom since they can leapfrog directly into broadband enabled IP technology without carrying the "analog baggage"... Lea