Email from Olivier Martin of CERN, Nov 29, 2001 In less than 2 weeks time we should have STM-1 all the way from CERN, the next step could be to turn the protected SONET/SDH circuit into 2 unprotected circuits in order to ease experimentation using 4 routers, 2 on each end, one for production and another one for research with possibly less stable but more advanced software. We also plan to issue a market survey for so called transatlantic lambda service which could be terminated to the new STARTAP (STARLIGHT) but as you can guess there are a number of issues around all of this.