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IBM (Yorktown Heights, NJ) will introduce a commercial alloptical network based on wavelengthdivisionmultiplexing technology that is ten times faster than localarea networks. . . . APA Optics (Minneapolis, MN) has been awarded a $771,000 Phase II SBIR contract to develo¥wavelengthdivisionmultiplexing optical modulators for the Navy. . . . Northern Telecom Europe received a $30 million contract to supply Yorkshire Cable with synchronous data hierarchy equipment. . . . Bosch Telecom (Gaithersb