VisionGlobal Corporation is a Nevada Corporation listed on the OTC Bulletin Board and as
reporting company has recently finalized several transactions establishing an exciting future for
the company. The diagram below depicts the current company structure which is subject to
change, Head Office is based in San Francisco and VisionLabs is located in Salt Lake City. To
reference all company details please click on the EDGAR DATA SERVICE icon below.
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VisionLabs
Lone Peak Research
Engineering Team Radio
Development Radio
Improvement
VisionEquip
Purchasing
Quality Control
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Network Engineers Network
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"The NETWORK"
Sales, Marketing
Technical Support
Customer Support
Tele-centers
The Company is preparing to deploy and fully market a high-speed wireless
network solution to 50 cities throughout the United States and several
international countries under the name visionZOOM. The Company's service
will initially be available to the San Francisco Bay area including Silicon
Valley. Rapid expansion of additional cities will be made after the first year
of operations. visionZOOM will target a customer base consisting of single
family homes, businesses, schools, universities and governmental institutions.
It is anticipated that initial marketing of the visionZOOM service will begin in
July of 2000.
VisionGlobal has acquired certain technology by its acquisition of all the outstanding Common
Stock of Lone Peak Research, Inc., a Salt Lake City, Utah based RF (radio frequency)
company. The acquisition was completed in August 1999. The acquisition will permit
VisionGlobal to offer wireless internet access and eventually other services at reasonable
prices compared to present rates and at high transmission speeds. At present this technology is
in the process of being prepared for operation in the near future (see discussion below), but is
not yet available.
Lone Peak Research owns the intellectual property rights to wireless
technology developed over the last two years. This technology includes 25
Mbps licensed free data radios that operate in a point-to-point, point-to-
multipoint and multipoint-to-multipoint network configuration. The Lone
Peak product line is in the completion phase of development and will be an
integral part of the visionZOOM system that will run on the unlicensed 5.7 GHz
spectrum and initially transfer data up to speeds of 25 Mbps. It is the
Company's intention to increase speeds up to 50 Mbps and then to 100 Mbps
over a two-year period. Final development of the initial technology will be
completed in the fall of 2000. VisionGlobal will own 100% of the intellectual
property and patents associated with the final development of the 5.7 GHz
operating systems.
To VisionGlobal's knowledge, it will have a faster and more economical
system deployment than any potential competitor to mass areas. visionZOOM's
customer service will include both an 800 number and web based support.
The Company's web site will allow a customer to learn information on the
Company's management, board of directors, public filings, how the technology
works, installation techniques, pricing structure, contact information and
online forms to subscribe to the visionZOOM service and receive real-time
technical support.
The Company will begin its visionZOOM service in August 2000. visionZOOM will
initially be available to the San Francisco Bay Area, then launched throughout
the country.
VisionGlobal is completing the development of a two-way high-speed wireless
network solution that it is planning to deploy and market in selected cities
throughout the United States utilizing spectrum in the 5.7 GHz band. The
Company network will be initially designed so that data transmission speeds
can increase (burst) to 25 Mbps while delivering a minimum of 1.5 to 2 Mbps.
According to the Company's knowledge, this will provide an effective one-way
throughput with speeds faster than all wired and wireless services in use
today. During this pre-operating period, the Company will complete the
installation of the backbone (basic network structure) in the San Francisco
Bay area. VisionGlobal's network will be connected on to DS3s owned by fiber
optic providers making it fully redundant.
The Company believes there is an increasing demand for wireless connectivity
and feels it can become a leading provider of "broadband" high-speed
wireless solutions and services. The Company will target single-family homes;
businesses including the telecommuter and the home based business with a
fast, reliable, reasonably priced service. The Company also has plans to offer
its service to apartment complexes, high rises, business parks, schools,
universities and government facilities in each market concurrent with the
offering to residential and business owners.
Upon the successful completion of the first phase of the United States rollout,
which the Company anticipates to be 22 months from October 1, 1999, the
Company intends to launch its service internationally with the initial
countries being Australia, Japan, Canada and the U.K.
The Company will make use of Wide-band binary phase shift keying (BPSK) technology. The
wireless solution under development utilizes the unlicensed 5.7 U-NII band at 5.7 GHz. The
system is capable of 10 to 25 Mbps. Depending on network design and instantaneous loading,
data transmission speeds can burst up to the full 25 Mbps. This will provide an effective one
way throughput, based on the Company's calculations, 446 times faster than a modem, 195
times faster than ISDN, more than 16 times faster than a T-1, up to 97 times faster than DSL
and 12 times faster than the cable modem.
The Company's product consists of a transceiver and will feature a standard 10/100 Base-T
Ethernet interface that allows it to be plugged into existing local area networks and
communication architectures with minimal effort. The hardware and firmware will be specifically
designed to support all relevant industry standards, including TCP/IP and SNMP for easy
remote management. It will support a variety of networking protocols, including 10 Base-T, 100
Base-T, ATM, video and telephone standards. The modular design will allow adjustment for
product specifications and performance to meet emerging standards or unique customer
requirements. Each unit used in a link or a network will act as a dynamic routing packet
switched node. This unique design approach to wireless networking sets this product apart from
others because each unit will be intelligent enough to dynamically route packets. This means
that units can be used to create a true multipoint network (either point to multipoint or
multipoint-to-multipoint). This feature helps the network architect overcome some of the pitfalls
of other wireless networks such as line of site problems.
The wireless network can be divided into subnets, with each subnet operating as a local cluster.
Each subnet would have gateways that help the subnet nodes communicate with other subnets.
The Company is of the opinion that its wireless networking products will be unique in their
ability to minimize the difficulties associated with microwave packet radio transmission:
reflection, deflection, and scattering. Signal quality is a dynamic factor that can be affected by
such things as weather, people, atmospheric interference and obstructions. The products will be
developed in such a way that data can be transported from one radio to another in a dynamic
fashion unlike other wireless networking options on the market today.
Multi-path is a condition of radio wave propagation that is universal to all frequencies. It occurs
when a transmitted signal is reflected off a surface. Technically, the phenomenon occurs at the
receiver's antenna. As a wave travels through an urban environment it will be reflected off
many surfaces. The impact of these reflections introduces anything from a slight to an extreme
shift in time to signal. At the receiver's antenna, all of these waves add together. Since the time
shift of the waves is random, some shifts will constructively add to the direct signal and some
will destructively add, thus making the signal amplitude fluctuate randomly.
The units will mitigate the effects of multi-path by employing unique and proprietary algorithms
and RF circuitry to process incoming signals.
The Company feels that it is essential to implement the best encryption and security
technologies to protect all transmitted data. The Company plans to license encryption
technologies to include in every product sold.
VisionGlobal intends to engineer its product range and network architecture such that any
upgrades or improvements can be easily implemented. The Company plans to add faster
bandwidth products within the first six to twelve months after the initial rollout, including 50
Mbps and 100 Mbps.
It is VisionGlobal's intention to provide more than connectivity. The Company plans to
implement voice and video services over the network. These additional services will be phased
in after the Company completes the initial marketing phase of operations. The Company
believes in establishing strategic alliances with major IP telecommunications firms that will
provide content directories and other distribution products over the Company's network.
VisionGlobal's primary product line will be a family of 5.7 GHz radio frequency
(RF) wireless networking receivers and transmitters. This packet switching
technology will provide high data transmission rates (ranging from 25Mbps to
100 Mbps, half duplex) over distances exceeding fifty (50) square miles with
an output power of 120 milliwatts. This will allow VisionGlobal to provide
customers with superior price/performance. The Company's first product will
provide end-users with the opportunity to connect to the Internet at speeds
over 400 times faster than today's alternative solutions.
The Company believes that its product design will be able to minimize
multi-path and other networking problems inherent in microwave wireless
technologies. VisionGlobal also believes that its technical solutions are
unique, proprietary, and possibly eligible for patents. The hardware and
firmware will be specifically designed to support relevant and applicable
industry standards. Customers will be able to extend their current networks
with point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, and multipoint-to-multipoint
wireless bridges.
The Company will not undertake the manufacturing of any product. All
production will be turnkey through major manufacturing companies yet to be
identified. The decision will be based on the manufacturer's ability to handle
the design. The Company will pay for the units as they are shipped.
Product Features Summary (in development, subject to change)
Data transfer rates up to 25 Mbps (half duplex)
5.8 GHz (5725-5850 Mhz)
Up to 15 mile range
Data turnaround time less than 10 ms
Unlicensed U-NIII spectrum, Part 15.401 - no operating license required
in US and possibly other countries
10BaseT
IEEE 802.3 and 802.3u compliant
Forward error correction
Power encryption (to be determined later)
Supports TCP/IP and SNMP protocols (ATM, video and voice protocols to
be added later)
Instant provisioning
Packet on demand
Supports point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and
multipoint-to-multipoint configurations
The Company has identified market segments it feels that are subject to high
growth trends and plans to market it aggressively: the high-speed data
business users; telecommuters; schools; home businesses; single family
homeowners; the apartment residents and government facilities. The
Company's strategy to penetrate each of the segments is to offer a
price/performance leading product; launch a custom promotions program
tailored to each market segment and to develop unique visionZOOM
distribution channels to increase its sales reach in addition to Company
employed sales and marketing specialists.
To the Company's knowledge, VisionGlobal will be the first to market a 5.7
GHz product in this category. Our closest direct competitor is Metricom
Inc.(Market Capitalization at approximately US $3B) with its Ricochet
product that offers a 900 Mhz 28 Kbps system. According to Metricom's latest
report, within 6 months Metricom has seen its client base grow from zero to
28,000 clients and an upgrade to 128 Kbps is anticipated within 12 months.
For comparison, this system, transmitting data at a speed of 128 Kbps, will
translate into .5% of the initial anticipated visionZOOM transmission rate.
VisionGlobal will commence business with an immediate rollout of the
wireless backbone necessary to support the forthcoming 5.7GHz product. The
rollout will include a fully redundant backbone; scalable based on bandwidth
requirements and by establishing partnerships with tier 1 providers. With
technological enhancements the Company will realize at the 5.7GHz level, the
Company will be able to offer a suggested list price highly competitive to
alternative technologies. We will also achieve this through significantly lower
overhead, stronger sales channel development, experienced management
and superior engineering and product design optimized to reduce the cost of
manufacturing.
During the first 18-24 months of operations, VisionGlobal plans to focus its
attention on the US domestic market. However, VisionGlobal management
has identified opportunities for the Company's wireless products and
technologies in other parts of the world - especially in established markets
such as Japan, Canada, Europe and Australia, where demand for high speed
data transfer is increasing coupled with the ability to pay. Each major
international market is characterized by different regulatory environments
and distribution channels, and will therefore require some product
development and marketing investments to develop. |
