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To: ahhaha who wrote (40)	11/13/1998 6:12:00 PM
From: Carl Hindman	Read Replies (2) of 626

ahhaha writes: " So far the only feedback has been negative,..." The negativity is purely (pun intended) a consequence of the inability of anyone to make sense of SR's claims. The level of (non)disclosure on their website is ludicrous. They offer no explanation whatever of how they use their putatively cleaner laser line to support higher bandwidths except to say that they use an external modulator (no kidding :), and obscurely reference '4 dimensional optical space' (gee Mr. Wizard isn't it swell!). What I found particu- larly hilarious was that they dedicate an entire page of the website to telling you what SR isn't without ever telling you what it is Instead they offer an endless series of neologisms (e.g. synchronous refractive communications) with no explanation of the underlying physical ideas or discussion in terms of conventionally accepted nomenclature. No white papers, no timing or waveform specs or even pictures, no reference to refereed literature showing test devices or their putatively novel solutions to Maxwells equations :). Most of this could be cleared up with a criply worded statement of not more than 200 words. Many of their claims are either nonspectacular e.g. 1 angstrom line width (ho humm) or misleading e.g. a 1 femtosecond diode (no such animal if electrical response time is implied). You claim that this reticence is a good strategy. I can guarantee you that this strategy will result in my company not even bothering to inquire further. The only strategy that this suggests is one of considerable uncertainty as to the security or relevance of their patents. None of this proves that they don't have something. What it proves is that they much more interested in talking to the investment managers and the financial reporters than they are to the technologists and that story is going to have to change if they want to actually sell anything besides their company.

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