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From: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
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Subject: What is SONET?
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Date: 14 Oct 89 00:04:24 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 447, message 5 of 9

I read in the newspaper today about some Northern Telecom fibre-optic
equipment that uses a signalling technology called SONET.  Does anybody know
what SONET actually is?