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Technology Stocks : Wi-LAN Inc. (T.WIN)
WILN 1.3900.0%Sep 18 5:00 PM EST
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To: P2V who wrote (735)10/22/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: Hatim Zaghloul  Read Replies (1) of 16863
 
Mardy,

Good question; and thanks for your continued interest and support.

Wi-LAN's products operate very much like cable modems; meaning the users share in the overall capacity. We provide the speed; if only one user is on, he can have access to all of it; if ten users all all active, then each will get one tenth of the speed (minus some overhead for the polling or moving between the users); etc.

When we say without a degradation of speed, we generally refer to some expectation. This is not the same for any two networks. Tele2 is currently targeting ISDN speeds (128kbps range). Telia is targeting E1 speeds (2Mbps range). Degradation has different meanings for these two networks.

We all know that an ISP would sell his T1 (1.54Mbps) many times over. If they had a 30Mbps base station, they could easily put one thousand subscribers counting on the fact that there will never be more than one hundred active (really transmitting and receiving - not just turned on) at any one time. This 100 would be sharing in, say, 17Mbps (after all overheads). This means that they have access to 170kbps during heavy congestion.

What I just wrote is technically not accurate but should give a simple guidance to how the networks are designed.

Hatim
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