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To: Ray Smith Jr who wrote (7153)	5/21/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: Freeflight	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12623

David Huber is back. These are not words to be taken lightly in the photonics industry. After engineering what at the time appeared to be the nearly impossible task of leaping the entire DWDM marketplace by two years with 16-channel units he engineered at Ciena Corp., the company he founded, Huber is back and talking optical switches. And when he says optical switches, he means optical switches. "Unlike most of our competitors, we believe in truth in packaging," Huber tells fibertoday.com. "When we say we are building an optical switch, we mean just that; there are no electronics in the core optical layer. The signal path runs through the optical core without any electronic intervention." Huber and the group of brilliant engineers he has assembled will be demonstrating "an optical switch with carrier class switching capacity at SuperComm '99," says Huber, president and CEO of Columbia, Md.-based Corvis Corp., which ironically is less than 10 miles from where Ciena sent its first commercial DWDM units out. "We will have the largest switch capacity by more than a magnitude," he observes. "These are terabit class switches." While he does not get more specific, Huber tells us a commercial Corvis switch will follow shortly after SuperComm 99. Adds Huber: "We think that this optical switch will add enormous efficiencies to the network." The switch represents a key building block in letting networks go forward, said Huber. "It is essential in bringing the cost for a bit down and the cost of a bit has to decrease exponentially," he added. For more information visit fibertoday.com .