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To: Natedog who wrote (247)	6/23/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Hatim Zaghloul	Read Replies (1) of 16863

Demonstration summary: We invited guests from all over the world. We had visitors from South Africa, Chile, Europe, Canada and the US. Customers, suppliers as well as competitors were present. There were 2 TV crews: the A-Channel and CBC News. The Calgary Herald was there. There were editors from US and Canadian technical publications such as the EE Times, Wireless Integration, and Wireless Data News. There were many analysts from brokerage firms present. We started the day with a Stampede style breakfast (two weeks early). That was followed by a tour of the Wi-LAN offices. We then transported the guests to the Palliser. I do not have an exact count but I believe there were over 100 people in the room. Senator Joyce Fairburn represented Industry Canada Minister and opened up the event. She talked about why they supported Wi-LAN since its inception with NRC IRAP grants. She explained that Wi-LAN is important in the Canadian vision of connecting all of Canada to the Internet. She wished us a lot of luck. I then gave a quick overview of the history of Wi-LAN explaining that "we were OFDM before OFDM was cool." I then explained the demonstration and we concluded with the Fluke LAN Meter test that showed a throughput exceeding 22.1Mbps. I explained that 30Mbps included the forward error correction overhead which is about 20% as well as header information. The OFDM data rate is about 50Mbps. I then invited Mr. Davor Tigerman, VP Sales and Marketing Telia Globalcast, who explained why they chose Wi-LAN over Lucent and Breezecom. He stated that neither of the other companies had promised this kind of performance in the near future. He said that they are and intend to remain Wi-LAN's largest customer. He joked at the end by saying he hopes we will hang in there for at least two years. Mr. Peter Scrope the Chairman of Tele2(UK) then explained about their system and their plans to cover 60% of the UK population by 2003. He explained why they chose Wi-LAN and Breezecom for the first trials and how these trials proved the three points they intended to prove. He explained that OFDM is the current candidate for future implementations. Finally Dr. Kursat Kimyacioglu from Philips Semiconductors talked about the importance of this demonstration and how the various semiconductor companies would like to be first to market with OFDM chips. He also explained that wireless IEEE1394 would be of great importance to the consumer electronics industry and that OFDM opens the door to that. He also suggested that set-top boxes would be well served with a 30Mbps wireless connection. We had intended to allow the visitors to browse the Internet and touch the computers but ran out of time since lunch was being served and I had interviews scheduled for the rest of the day. Sorry for the long post. Hatim

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