Champ Car is very tough, and the only thing that matters is winning. It's very easy to let the hype get ahead of the fact, and I don't want her career to blow up.

We decided the time was right in every sense to create a new global company providing components and modules to the telecommunications equipment vendors.

And they won't be making one just for one year.

It was a great race, but they've managed to ruin it.

One promise I had to make to Katherine was that I did not drape her over a car.

We have them on the schedule next year. We're going to wait and see how they do.

And we've also got a backup plan if Montreal does go away.

All optical switching is clearly one of the next great hurdles for the fiber optic industry.

It wouldn't surprise me if that happens in 2007 but we've got a contract with Montreal for 2006.