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Technology Stocks : Wi-LAN Inc. (T.WIN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: axial who wrote (591)	9/13/1999 4:35:00 PM
From: Artifex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16863

Personally, I wonder if Wi-LAN is really IN the wireless LAN market, most of what I've seen seems to be WAN oriented.

To: axial who wrote (591)	9/13/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: P2V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16863

Jaskay, for sure we're both getting dangerous LOL .... Now if only I could "understand everything that I know, about this stuff" (An old expression that I picked up during many many hours at the FAA's technical training schools.) I need to do a whole lot of "understanding" before I can attempt to give valid answers to your questions. But I think we can count on someone stepping in and helping us out here. I think we're dealing for sure, with "Transceivers" ( combined transmitters & receivers ), so we don't need to worry about separate transmitters and receivers. I don't know about the "slowdown to POTS speed", but I have been on the User End of wired TDMA devices which indeed did cut their operating speed in half, each time we doubled the number of users. Do W-OFDM devices also have these restrictions ?? I don't know. ASICs , as I understand it, are Application Specific Integrated Circuits. Basically, we would hope that Wi-Lan will condense (shrink) their current technology (circuit boards, etc) into a few very tiny integrated circuit patterns. And these ASICS may be (Analog) transmitter , receiver , or transceiver circuits. Or they may be digital -- (processors of ones and zeros) to perform computer, or sophisticated digital logic functions. The actual production of these devices will likely be farmed out to someone such as Philips, etc. I would like to think of Wi-Lan as an early version of a Qualcomm .... Like QCOM, Wi-Lan has the lock on a superior "enabling technology" (called W-OFDM.) IMHO Wi-Lan must now quickly go on to develop ASICs. Then they can either sell the ASICs directly to manufacturers who wish to produce W-OFDM products, or they can license their Intellectual Patent Rights (IPR) to others who may wish to develop their own ASICS and/or W-OFDM products. And very importantly, Wi-Lan must continue to get their own versions of finished W-OFDM products out into the market place, to both prove this new technology, and to earn revenue for the long and short term. I believe I also read (on this or the Stockhouse.com thread) that Wi-Lan also holds a patent that may very well be incorporated into the new 3rd Generation CDMA cellular/PCS systems that are proposed by Ericsson and Nokia. If this comes about, then Wi-Lan may also get some IPR revenue there. Finally, impatient folks like myself must hang in there, and retain faith that Wi-Lan's current management knows what they are doing. Thank you for the links. While we're struggling to understand this stuff, we can hope for someone to step in and bail us out. Best regards, Mardy.