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IP: The Tidal Wave Is Forming
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 10:47:38 -0500
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 09:23:16 -0500 To: farber () central cis upenn edu From: gaj () portman com (Gordon Jacobson) Dave - The Enron press release below follows on the announcement last summer that the Canadian government has started to build its version of Internet X using IP directly over fiber - bypassing IP over ATM over SONET or even IP over SONET. One should now begin looking at the combined effect of Ball Semiconductor's XRay Lithography technology, the Silicon Carbide technology of Cree Research and Sterling Semiconductor, Commercial Technology Corp's Optical CDMA and "True" Optical Cross Connect technologies, Nexabit's 6 Terrabit Routing Technology, Global Crossing's recently announced 128,000 kms, 16 Wave WDM world wide fiber build out, two new GBLX projects: the first, a 14,000 kms fiber build between the US and Europe and the second, a 21,000 kms buildout between the US and Japan, the Qwest, Level3, Frontier, IXC, and a host of other national, regional and local fiber build outs by companies other than the major Interstate Carriers, Local Telcos and Cable cos. Given the above selection from a long list of technology advances and implementations, it should not take much imagination to see where this is heading and just how quickly intelligently switched voice services, the cash cows of the major Carriers and Telcos, will dry up. GAJ
ENRON BUILDS NATIONWIDE IP/DWDM NETWORK WITH CISCO, CIENA Enron Communications, one of the world's leading integrated natural gas and electricity companies, will build a Pure IP network across the US using Cisco SystemsÂ’ 12000 GSRs interconnected directly to CIENA's Multiwave Sentry 4000 DWDM equipment. CIENA has already has shipped equipment valued at approximately $23 million for the first Portland-to-Los Angeles fiber route. EnronÂ’s Pure IP network will transport data at OC48 on each DWDM channel without the use of SONET multiplexers or other intermediate equipment. Enron said its forthcoming data- centric national fiber optic backbone would focus on the wholesale bandwidth needs of other telecommunications service providers. http://www.ciena.com
CIENA, November 3, 1998
_____________________________________________________________________ David Farber The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems University of Pennsylvania Home Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber
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