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1.1     ! root        1: d a AM-LaserLines     06-24 0301
        !             2: ^AM-Laser Lines,310<
        !             3: ^AT&T Announces Laser Communications Network for Northeast<
        !             4:           SOMERSET, N.J. (AP) _ By 1983, people in Washington and New York
        !             5: will be communicating by telephone over Bell System laser-powered
        !             6: cables that can carry up to 80,000 conversations on a single
        !             7: hair-thin strand of glass.
        !             8:           The new network described Tuesday will link Boston and
        !             9: Washington through a half-inch cable that carries information on
        !            10: pulses of light along the glass strands.
        !            11:           ``We're entering the age of photonics _ carrying communications
        !            12: on pulses of light, rather than as electrical signals,'' said
        !            13: Richard K. Jacobsen, vice president of American Telephone &
        !            14: Telegraph's long lines department.
        !            15:           ``Eventually, lightwave communications may offer a high-quality,
        !            16: low-cost way to bring a variety of improved voice, data and video
        !            17: services to customers in offices, shops and homes.''
        !            18:           The laser-powered cable lines will be inserted in existing Bell
        !            19: circuits in all but 97 miles of the 611-mile Washington-to-Boston
        !            20: network, Jacobsen said.
        !            21:           The first leg of the northeastern corridor will run from
        !            22: Washington through Baltimore, Wilmington, Del., Trenton and Newark
        !            23: to New York City. It is scheduled for completion in 1983, Bell
        !            24: officials said.
        !            25:           By 1984, the system will stretch through White Plains, N.Y.,
        !            26: Bridgeport, Conn., New Haven, Conn., Hartford, Conn., Springfield,
        !            27: Mass., Worchester, Mass., and Cambridge, Mass. to Boston, Jacobsen
        !            28: said.
        !            29:           He estimated the system would save Bell at least $49 million in
        !            30: construction and operating costs by 1990. ``By building a single
        !            31: lightwave system _ instead of separate facilities _ the overall
        !            32: cost to the Bell System ... will be greatly reduced.''
        !            33:           The project is a combined effort of AT&T and seven local Bell
        !            34: system companies. Bell plans to extend the system to the southern
        !            35: and western United States in the next few years and install an
        !            36: undersea system to handle trans-Atlantic calls by 1988, officials
        !            37: said.
        !            38:           AP-NR-06-24 1238EDT<

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