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Technology Stocks : Ioptics: Microsoft-backed Start-Up
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To: Brendan2012 who wrote (3)3/20/1998 8:39:00 PM
From: ftth  Read Replies (1) of 39
 
Seems like there are many, many, potential applications in consumer and commercial products. It could coexist in a computer system if the cost per megabyte is significantly cheaper than a hard drive at comparable data rates. A good portion of everyone's hard drive space is already "wasted" with read-only executable code (like windows 95).

A massive array of paralleled OROMs could be used at the headend of a digital broadband network for storage and delivery on demand of movies and other content (sort of like the uplink facility for DirecTV, except their content is stored on magnetic tape--miles and miles of it) so this could GREATLY reduce the cost of such a facility. There will be literally thousands of such facilities that will be coming on line as digital broadband content becomes more prevalent.

If they can get the capacity up, which I'm sure they can, there are even more possibilities. A lot depends on how unique it is. Ioptics (a.k.a. Information Optics?) has pending patents in the area of signal processing techniques for optical storage. If these present roadblocks to entry, rather than just barriers to entry, they could be significant.

They also need the backing/committment of industry powerhouses to be successful in my opinion. Mr Softie is a good start. Its a big enough potential market that they don't have to be the only player to be successful, but they do need to be the dominant player.

I'd think they could concentrate just on the commercial end and be dominant. Leave the low margin consumer end for someone else.
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