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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (8870)10/13/2000 7:00:27 PM
From: Sector Investor  Read Replies (1) of 12823
 
Good questions, Mike.

Obviously I cannot answer them from my knowledge, but also in that article was a table titled "Link attenuation and the weather" which should help a bit regarding your distance questions.

Also, there is additional information in this 21st Century Investor article on this area.

Regarding reliability, here is how they said they reach "5 nines" of availability:

"How can they deliver "5 nines" (that's the techie term for 99.999%)? By using a "mesh" architecture, and then throwing in a further back-up layer through the use of unlicensed radio frequency transmission. A mesh means that OA is provisioning a back-up TereScope at each site, pointed to another TereScope in the network, so that there is always a way to route around an outage and get out to the Internet. "

That RF capability is new. I imagine they can lengthen their distances a bit, if the customer is willing to possibly have to use the backup link during a heavy fog for example.

Their recently filed S1 states that they have OC-48 speeds now, and by using 16 channel DWDM they will have 40Gbps speeds in the 2nd half of 2001.

ragingbull.altavista.com

Of course, your concerns apply to this technology in general, including Terabeam and AirFiber, right, not just Optical Access?
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