Arun Welch wrote: Yup. There's work in progress to put IP directly on SONET, which should save people with OC-3c backbones from paying the ATM penalty. Cook: would you please give a pointer to whom they are and what one reads or looks at to get up to speed? (ie IP over sonet) ********************************************************************* Gordon Cook, Editor & Publisher Subscriptions: Individ-ascii $85 The COOK Report on Internet Individ. hard copy $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 Corporate $350 Internet: cook@cookreport.com Corporate Site Lic. $650 http://pobox.com/cook/ for new COOK Report Glossary of Internet terms *********************************************************************