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To: Doughboy who wrote (7083)	5/10/1999 12:19:00 PM
From: KYA27	Respond to of 12623

You mean NT's obsolete technology.Lucent Technologies is trying out a laser four times as fast as Nortel's, with plans to make it available in the first quarter of next year. Roth's Canada-based company is pushing Wave Division Multiplexing to new heights, sending 160 colors of light, each carrying 10 billion bits of information per second, down one strand -- 640 times more bandwidth than could be achieved five years ago. Scheduled for trial runs later this year and commercial deployment in 2000, this technology could ship the entire contents of the Library of Congress to New York on a single piece of glass in 14 seconds. Mat Steinberg, a top fiber-optic analyst for consulting firm Ryan Hankin Kent Inc. of South San Francisco, said Nortel has the technology lead -- this week. Other competitors are racing ahead with their own fiber-optic advancements, which promise to drive the number of colors and the speed of the lasers even further. For example, Lucent Technologies is trying out a laser four times as fast as Nortel's, with plans to make it available in the first quarter of next year.