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To: wiley murray who wrote (13846)	5/4/1998 10:07:00 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) of 77400

Wiley, As an employee I cannot comment before an announcement. However, since I am an engineer - I wouldn't know anyway on the finances:-) One of my assignments (I am a consulting engineer and work primarily on large scale IP designs) is working with the North Carolina GigaNet Initiative (see ncgni.org and especially the Architecture pages). This is a group of Internet2 educational institutions (Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, NC State and MCNC - with Wake Forest just recently joining). They/we had the 1st operational Internet2 GigaPop and are very keen on participating as an initial testbed for Abilene. We already have an OC-48 ring running on Nortel SONET. The only change we would need for Abilene testing is to move from ATM to POSIP. The intersting part of this project is seeing interest in ATM wane and interest in IP with QOS take off. There is even an active project to push voice from their PBX's with gateways as well as with software on PC's. Video is already running. Its an understatement to state that the technology is revolutionary - One example where I have taken the same design principals is to a hospital system. They will use MPEG1 technology over ISDN for consultation with remote clinics. MPEG2 will run locally on switched Fast Ethernet environments, but their (the doctors) real goal is for the cost of digital photography to reach the point of diagnostic capability - no series of MRI shots on film - but a 3D physiological model that can be explored and examined stereotactically - even in real time. To reach this goal - image sizes will dramatically increase - so the bandwidth requirements will be huge. This is a great business in which to be a plumber (hence my long term optimism). Will keep you posted, John

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