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To: quidditch who wrote (524)	8/4/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: engineer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13582

<<Slightly OT in this whole ASIC discusssion, recall the posts about 3 to 5 weeks ago in which MOT and LU (I think) announced that they were going to join forces for a new wireless medium and commit substantial resources to a JV? Wonder how all this fits in.>> Probably in wideband access, such as the MMDS or LMDS bands. this is line of sight point to point type stuff which is fixed, but high speed. Killed major time by trees. It may be a great business to business type thing, but not your consumer widespread technology. You need to aim an antenna well, have line of sight to the tower (forever, so make sure you have a good tree trimmer...), and be able to use all the bandwidth that you pay for full time on a dedicated t1/t3 type link.