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Technology Stocks : Terayon - S CDMA player (TERN)
TERN 26.31+0.8%Nov 21 9:30 AM EST

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To: Geof Hollingsworth who wrote (37)11/17/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Bernard Levy  Read Replies (1) of 1658
 
Hi Geof:

One important aspect of the DOCSIS announcement, which
is not favorable to TERN, is that TERN is licensing its
patents on a royalty free basis. This mans that the QCOM
model will not apply to TERN. Royalty fees constitute a
large part of QCOM's revenue stream. From this perspective,
there is little reason to expect that TERN will have the
same success as QCOM.

Another aspect of the DOCSIS decision is that it
consolidates BRCM's dominance of the cable modem chip set
business. if DMT had been picked for the Hi-PHY standard,
it would have been a big setback for BRCM, which dominates
all QAM-based chip design.

Best regards,

Bernard Levy

PS: One good thing I have to say about Terayon is
that their current S-CDMA upstream modulation method
does uses spread 16-QAM, which is a nice technical
achievement (wireless CDMA just uses spread BPSK
or QPSK).
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