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To: Teddy who wrote (3400)	4/17/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

Thanks. Sycamore was covered briefly as an emerging optical in the Silkroad thread, I believe, not long ago. They have a very powerful message, I believe, but one which shares some burdens with the proposed wireless architecture I just posted. The most poignant among them, to convert established thinking at the religious level, in both carriers and enterprises alike. Broad-based broadband optical enterprise networking, for example, in urban areas is now a possibility. But enterprises are in the midst now of deploying broad-based conventional, albeit more limited in capacity, electrical TCP/IP techs, instead, throughout their internal feeders and carrier hand off spaces. Dislodging these still un-depreciated wares, and the human capital costs behind them, is not something that will take place very soon. And there is a comfort of knowing that something works, proven by a history of performance. Technolgoies which are closer to being considered pure opticals, in a sense, share this second space with wireless, since many of them are still unproven. That is, they lack the test of time, and people still don't trust their survivability to the same extent that they do SONET and other hot standby routing and self-healing techniques, for example. The proposed alternatives may be just as good, but they lack the experience. This may only be perceptual, but it's one of the most profound factors at play at the enterprise and carrier purchasing levels. I like the etiology of the name, by the way, that's very funny. Regards, Frank Coluccio