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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: jack bittner who wrote (6154)12/11/1999 10:02:00 PM
From: mrknowitall  Read Replies (2) of 12823
 
Jack - sorry for the late response, but the season is upon us . . .

The rationale seems to me to be almost traditional - announce technological developments as a practice. The application of them may or may not turn out to be successful on a marketplace basis.

Consider though, that there are large regions of the world that on a statistical basis are probably free of interfering weather circumstances a large portion of the time. Theoretically, you could balance the traffic across various media when one or another is impaired - IP switching provides almost seamless re-routing if a channel experiences difficulty, and the meshing and peering of networks will eventually assure that many topologies will find their niches.

The other significance, at least in my mind, is the ability to virtually secure the transmission medium itself - not just encrypt the content, but make it far less vulnerable to reception and recording.

What I really believe to be a viable application is in very short duration, high-bandwidth, secure line-of-sight communications that can take place from multiple points of origin to a given destination. Now apply that theory to who needs such things and apply some military tactical requirements that civilians have little "need to know" and you may see why they're a little more excited than the average Joe.

Mr. K.
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