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To: silicon warrior who wrote (8217)	9/11/1998 12:49:00 PM
From: Bernard Levy	Read Replies (2) of 12468

To the thread: For those who requested more information on ''Blast,'' I have looked at the papers published in the open literature by the Bell Labs group. My assessment is that this press release was extremely premature. Most of the papers consist of a computation of the information capacity provided by a system with multiple transmitter and receiving antennas. Information capacity is typically a long-term goal, but not a realistic near-term engineering target. The experimental set-up described on the Bell Labs web site has a relatively small scale. My comments will sound harsh, but this press release should have never been issued. It describes stuff that will not come out of the lab before 5 to 10 years. Keep in mind that groups within Bell Labs need to justify the renewal of their budgets, and attracting headlines is often a good mechanism to do so. My take is also that the earliest implementation of these ideas will be for wireless LANS. So Winstar investors can sleep in comfort. Blast is unlikely to perturb Winstar's business plans in the near, intermediate, or even long-term (5 to 10 years) future. Best regards, Bernard Levy

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