Sector,
This relates to the post on the CIEN board that you pointed out to me the other day:
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As I had suggested, I was contacted by an interested Silk Road investor, and they reminded me of something concerning the demo that I lost site of, over time. Here's what they had to say:
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"[Frank,]
"In response to the calculations that people have been doing on the thread regarding the tests, everyone keeps mentioning 144 channels of programing. I believe SR's demonstration was for 840 channels of programming. They used 144 TV sets for the demonstration because two banks of 840 TV screens would be a bit cumbersome. SR's websight has the news release that explains this.
"That seems like it would bump up your high-end calculations to the numbers that SR claims. Other than that, I have heard postive rumors, but no actual news. I do believe that they have had lots of large corporations visit their facility.
"One reason I am getting more optomistic is that I feel that if the equipment did not show some promise I would think there would be rumors and negative information coming out by now.
[Regards, ...]"
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I think that if you combine the above with the more realistic throughput rates associated with commercial grade video that I spelled out in my post...
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...then, things start to come into clearer focus, making the SE claims more plausible or likely. Hope this helps to clarify the particulars about the demo, at least.
All,
I suggest that if anyone has any further questions conerning this matter, they should by all means contact the company directly and report back here with their findings. I'd like to hear more on this, one way or the other, myself.
Ciao for now, and Regards, Frank Coluccio |
