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Technology Stocks : Winstar Comm. (WCII)
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To: Bernard Levy who wrote (7681)8/11/1998 9:16:00 PM
From: SteveG  Read Replies (2) of 12468
 
UPDATED - <..needing to migrate its P-P operations to P-MP is valid..>

Could you elaborate on this? I understand that WCII does NOT plan (anytime soon) to retune/reprogram their P-P radios/hubs to handle P-MP. I know that reprogramming a hub for P-MP costs about $300K, but don't know exactly what all that entails. I do know that WCII does NOT plan on reprogramming the P-P to P-MP anytime soon. I just don't know enough of these kinds of technical details to know whether that is a correct interpretation of what they might even want to do.

IF as I understand they decide to leave (for the time being) their P-P customers as they are, would there be any integration problems further upstream into their network, based on compatibilty issues with legacy P-P protocols and P-MP? In other words, can you run P-P in Chi and P-MP is LA, and still have an integrated network? Or P-P in NY and P-MP on different hubs also in NY? Seems that once data is packetized (frame, IP, ATM or whatever), it is no longer "coded" by any proprietary P-P radio link technology - or is there a lot more to this than I am sensing?

One concern I DO have is the committment to voice circuit switches (5ESSs) over data based switching.

In any case, I thought Ackerman's statement (roughly) that "anyone who tells you that P-MP equipment is currently available is wrong" was, if true, potentially indicting of TGNT's business plan.

Also interesting that they plan to run 38Ghz and LMDS on the same hubs.

Thanks in advance for any insights you can offer.

Steve
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