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Technology Stocks : Newbridge Networks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pat mudge who wrote (12563)	8/6/1999 11:12:00 AM
From: fumble	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

NN Clipping service - today's NYTimes nytimes.com Available today for free The reference to Newbridge - not complimentary nor denigrating, but just 'offhand'. Also NN's name is not in bold face and it does not appear in the Company Index - a bit strange.. <<..the communications behemoths traditionally have lost little of their intellectual capital to start-ups. There are a few exceptions -- Newbridge Networks of Canada was founded by former Nortel Networks executives -- but in general...>> The article itself though is pretty exciting - about how a basement operation in New Jersey has come up with an interesting ATM based system (rather than the rash of IP based schemes which have dominated the news release business) <<They think they have come up with something at least as flashy as the latest E-commerce site. Later this month, Tachion intends to announce that it has developed what it calls a "collapsed central office," an integrated communications system that can allow carriers to switch and transport both phone calls and different data formats in a fraction of the space required for traditional communications gear. The Comcast Corporation, the cable television giant, and MCI Worldcom, the long-distance carrier, have agreed to try the new system.>> Tachion has raised decent financing and has a new CEO - Jeff Matros who was vice president for marketing and business development for the data communications group of Siemens A.G. (NY?) I wonder whether that Jeff Matros was the person from Siemens who gave a smashing presentation at the Newbridge september shindig a few years ago. There is a nice paragraph in the article: << Though Internet protocol, or I.P., has become a buzzword known even to casual technophiles, A.T.M. is forming the core of most new networks being built by giant communications carriers like AT&T and the Sprint Corporation. Like I.P., A.T.M. splits communications into small pieces. But unlike I.P., which creates data packets of varying length, A.T.M. generally creates data cells of uniform size. That uniformity, coupled with A.T.M.'s ability to create "virtual circuits" that can enhance reliability, can be a powerful advantage because it allows A.T.M. to carry voice, video and data traffic together without sacrificing much efficiency. >>