Where Storage Is Always At A Premium
By Shelley Souza
Optionetics.com
I was reminded this morning of a small company I learned of last year called Constellation 3D (CDDD). The company was recently approved Nasdaq listing (at the time I heard about them, they were still a bulletin board stock). Their technology is compelling because they're in the storage sector, which most of us know from personal experience-whether it's bedroom closets or disk space on our computers-is a commodity that always appears to be at a premium. In fact, if storage were an actual commodity being traded in the Futures pits, I suspect it would be one of the perennial bull markets.
Constellation 3D has developed a way to use fluorescent light (which is significantly cheaper than laser) and layer compact discs. Each layer of a DVD data density format disc can store 4.7GB of data; 20 layers means approximately 95GB of storage on a single disc, with a transfer rate of approximately 1 Gigabit per second. Effectively, you can transfer 95GB of data in a minute and a half. Fluorescent multilayer technology is being adapted to different formats beyond circular spinning discs. It's being used in an array of equipment, from digital cameras to smart cards for holding personal data for use in casinos, airports, etc. What makes it attractive as a forward-looking technology is the cost of using fluorescent multilayering. Right now the cost of manufacturing 10GB is less than $10. At this time, Constellation 3D doesn't carry options, but it's worth keeping on the radar screen in case of future listing.
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