Index

ADC Telecommunications, 98 China Telecom, 95, 97 Alcatel, 25, 26, 53, 115, 116, 117, 118 China Unicom, 95, 97 Alestra, 58 China-US, 24, 30 Alferness, Rod, 131 Chicago Fiber Optics Corp., 36 Annunziata, Bob, 35, 48 Ciena Corp., 46, 47, 48, 50, 53, 54, 72, 129 Antec, 65 COLT (City of London Telecommunications), Armstrong, C. Michael, 48 101,110 AT&T, 1, 3, 4, 5, 14, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, Commscope, 87, 88 28, 29, 41, 43, 49, 50, 54, 57, 58, 74, 77, Coming, 1, 2, 3, 4, 35, 45, 46, 56, 77, 83, 84, 84 87, 88 Atlantic Crossing, 23, 28 Cowhey, Peter, 84, 85 Atlantis-2, 125 Crowe, James, 51, 53, 71, 72 Avantel, 57,58 Deutsche Telekom, 102, 105, 111-114 BC Tel, 61 Digital Cross Connects, 43 Bell, Alexander Graham, 7 Dik, Wim, 103 Bell Canada, 61 DWDM (dense wavelength division Bell Labs, 1, 44, 45, 83 multiplexing), 24, 46, 47, 48, 53, 73 Bell Northern Research, 2, 32, 44 Bell, Philip, 64, 66, 67 Ebbers, Bernie, 75 Bellcore (Telcordia Technologies), 43 ECI Telecom, 78 Bookham Technology, 110 EDFAs (erbium doped fiber amplifiers), 11, 47 British Telecom, 101, 102, 107 Ehnert, Hans, 112 Brooks Fiber, 37 Electronicast Corp., 98 Brown, Richard, 108, 109 Energis, 109 Bruhnke, Howard, 36 Esprit Telecom, 106 Burness, Diane, 57, 59 European Commission, 105, 106 BT Labs, 2 Fiber Optics News, 27, 65 Cable &Wireless, 19, 26, 101, 108, 109 fibertoday.com, 65 Cambrian, 68 fiber to the home, 90 Canadian RBOCs, 32 FLAG (Fiberoptics Link Around The Globe), Carter, Bill, 22, 26, 27, 116 21 Chan, Mike, 97 France Telecom, 26, 102, 115, 116, 118 Chiddix, Jim, 38, 39, 40, 41 Frontier (before GC purchase), 51 133 134 INDEX

Fujitsu, 26, 42, 43, 44, 77, 81, 93 McFadden, Brian, 68, 69 Fujitsu Labs, 2 McLuhan, Marshall, 17 FSAN (Full Services Access Network), 89, 90 Melle, Serge, 66 Mercury, 101, 107, 108, 109 Gates, Bill, 127 Metronet, 67 Gemini, 24 MFS Communications, 36 Gilder, George, 47, 48, 71, 129, 131 Miller, Stewart, 1, 8 Global Access Ltd., 24 Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, 84, Global Crossing, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 85, 87, 88 Greene, Harold, 53 MITI, 84 Grove, Andy, 47, 127 Moore's Law, 47 GTE, 124 Mumford, Greg, 66 Multimode fiber, 5, 9 Hicks, Will, 131 Murase, Emily, 84, 85 Hitachi, 44 Hockham, G. A., 8, 96 NEC, 26, 77, 81, 83 Hong Kong Tel, 24 Nettles, Patrick, 47 Huber, David, 47 New common carriers, 82 Hybrid fiber coaxial networking (HFC), 31, 37, Newbridge Networks, 69 38, 39, 41, 49, 50 NextLink Communications, 36 North American Free Trade Agreement, 32 IXC Communications (Broadwing), 48, 51 Northeast Corridor Project, 14, 77 Nortel Networks (formerly Northern Telecom), Japan Diet, 88 32, 43, 44, 48, 53, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, Japanese Technology Evaluation Center, 82 68, 69, 73, 83, 102, 129 NTT, 24, 77, 78, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 Kao, Charles, 8, 17, 74, 96, 131 NTT Labs, 2 KDD, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 29, 78, 85 Keck, Don, 1, 8 OC-192, 13, 93 KMI (Kessler Marketing Intelligence), 119, Optus, 92, 93 120, 121, 122, 123, 124 Osicom, 54 Korea Tel, 24 Kronseder, Georg, 112 Pacific Crossing, 30 Kymata, 110 Pan-American Crossing, 23 Pangrac, Dave, 38, 39, 40 Laor, Herzel, 39 Pan-European Crossing, 23 Lauroesch, Mark, 3, 46 Photonic Technologies, 68 Lawrence, Derek, 3, 4, 32, 35, 41, 54, 55, 78, Pioneer Consulting, 29, 30 130,131 Pirelli, 20, 26, 46 Level 3, 48, 51, 53, 71 PTAT-1, 18, 19, 27 Lucent Technologies, 41, 42, 44, 46, 48, 53, PTT Nederland, 103 56, 58, 78, 87, 88, 96, 97, 130 Qwest, 48, 50, 51, 58, 73 Malone, John, 50 Manitoba Telephone, 61 Radical plummet, 37 Marubeni, 24 Regional Bell Operating Companies, 5 Maurer, Robert, 1, 8 Rewiring of America, The, 1, 5, 14, 17, 61, 71 Maya-1, 125 Roth, John, 69 MCI, 5, 18, 24, 35, 48, 50, 57, 74 Ruderman, Kurt, 121, 123, 125, 126 McCaw, Craig, 36 Ryan, Hankin, Kent, 83 INDEX 135

Saskatchewan Telephone, 61 TDM (time division multiplexing), 10 SBC, 24 Telco Systems Fiber Optics Cop., 35, 42 Schaefer, Konnie, 19, 20, 25, 28 TeleBermuda International, 26 Schultz, Peter, 1, 8 Telecom Eireann, 106 Scientific-Atlanta, 40 Telecommunicaitons Act of 1996, 50 SEA-ME-WE 3, 20, 29, 93 Telefonica, 122 Sevin, Rosen, 47 Telefonos de Mexico, 57, 59 Shaw, James, 92, 93, 94 Teleport Communications Group, 35, 36, 49 Shumate, Paul, 83 Tellabs, 54 Siecor, 3, 4, 32, 130 Tellium, 54 Simplex Wire and Cable, 14, 18 Tel-Optik, 19 Single-mode fiber, 55 Telstar, 13 Sommer, Ron, 111, 112, 114 Telstra, 91, 92, 93, 94 SONET (synchronous optical networking), 41, Telus, 61, 67 43, 44, 45, 66, 83 Tenzer, Gerd, 112 SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy), 43, 82, Time-Warner, 38, 41 83, 99 Touge, Takashi, 81, 82 Southern Cross, 30 TPC-5, 19 SpecTran, 35 Traditional fiber optic carriers, 71 Spectrum Planning, 37 Tyco International, 18, 27 Sprint, 5, 18, 24, 48, 50, 74 SSI (Submarine Systems Inc.), 26, 27 Unger, Mike, 66 Stanzione, Dan, 56 Stark, Larry, 40 WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) 11, Sumitomo, 77, 83 45, 48 SYNTRAN (synchronous transmission), 42 Western Electric, 4 Szelag, Kathy, 41, 43, 44, 45 Williams Communications, 48 Williamson, Louis, 38 TAT-8, 14, 18, 20, 29 WorldCom, 22, 24, 37, 48, 50, 53, 73, 14 TAT-9, 20 Wortman, Greg, 43, 44, 45