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To: Bruce Byall who wrote (736)	6/8/1999 9:56:00 AM
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. . . also from SuperCOMM : supercommnews.com exerpt: Still, one of the technologies that is beginning to emerge as a global winner in broadband wireless is the Local Multipoint Distribution System (LMDS), which is getting its start in the United States following an auction of licenses more than a year ago. It has also been making inroads in Latin America and other Third-World areas. LMDS is a broadband wireless point-to-multipoint communication system operating above 20 GHz (depending on the country) that can be used to provide digital two-way voice, data, Internet, and video services. Total sales for subscriber and infrastructure gear are expected to top $3 billion in 2001, creating the real possibility that service revenues could keep up with buildout costs, even in the initial years of operation. "After many false starts, the long-held promise of LMDS and other broadband wireless technologies -- cost effective broadband links to a majority of business users – will finally be realized by the end of this year," says Carlton O'Neal, San Diego-based Ensemble Communications Inc.'s vice president of marketing and sales. "Complimenting the limited amount of fiber access today, next generation Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) systems will enjoy wide deployment due to their use of a ‘wireless bus' architecture of high-speed, burst modems being shared by geographically dispersed customers. In deploying broadband pipes, the only cost-effective solution is one that can flexibly handle the constant varying demands of different services. It all starts with a next-generation, low cost architecture that can adapt in real-time to the bandwidth requirements of business users, while at the same time enabling both existing and differentiated service applications," he says.