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To: John Pitera who wrote (40020)	5/10/1999 2:56:00 PM
From: Lucretius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

that's why I tend to lead stmts like "gold will go to $400 by year end" w/ "I THINK" -g- what's 'ole Peter sayin these days... has he gotten bullish yet? I'm kinda hoping for a Business Week cover that says GOLD IS DEAD this weekend... ho ho

To: John Pitera who wrote (40020)	5/10/1999 2:58:00 PM
From: MythMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

some of your posts appear to have a bullish slant. slapping gold and worshiping chips? ho ho ho

To: John Pitera who wrote (40020)	5/10/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: wlheatmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86076

Guess what I found. I believe Nortel is UNPH's customer......ho ho ho biz.yahoo.com Microsoft senior network engineer, Global Networks and Systems, Gregg Atkins said optical networks will play a key role in enabling Microsoft's own network to grow and take advantage of the tremendous potential of distributed computing. ''Microsoft has very high expectations that this new generation of all-optical transmission and switching technologies will support the exponential growth of our bandwidth demands,'' Atkins said. The SONET and SDH protocols offer important ''intelligence'' features, and Microsoft is looking for equivalent features in the WDM (wavelength-division multiplexing) technology of the OPTera Metro solution, Atkins added. ''Our investigation of this rapidly emerging technology is centered on the desire to break away from the channel bandwidth and format limitations of TDM-based SONET/SDH, while keeping and even improving upon the fault tolerant and ease of administration attributes of SONET/SDH,'' Atkins said. Microsoft's decision to work with Nortel Networks' OPTera Metro and 10 Gbps optical networking equipment could mark the beginning of a trend which will see thousands of corporate enterprises moving to metropolitan, optical-based networks, said Mike Unger, Nortel Networks' president of Optical Networks. ''The dramatic growth in capacity and the fall in price of fiber optics is bringing nearly unlimited bandwidth closer and closer to the front curb of the world's businesses and homes,'' Unger said. ''This is the key enabling force today for explosive growth in both corporate networks and the Internet.'' Nortel Networks is the world leader in high-speed fiber optic backbone networks with a 90+ percent market share of 10 Gbps Internet backbones. More than 75 percent of backbone Internet traffic in North America runs over Nortel Networks optical networking platforms. On May 4, the company extended its lead by announcing the OPTera 1600G, the world's fastest fiber optic system, sending data at a blistering 1.6 terabits per second per fiber.