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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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