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To: mact who wrote (342)	9/28/1999 7:11:00 AM
From: Wes Stevens	Respond to of 792

mact, The float is still too small for a lot of institutions. There are a lot that will not get in till the lockup expires at 180 days and the float goes way up.

To: mact who wrote (342)	9/28/1999 9:13:00 AM
From: Secret_Agent_Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 792

NEWS***** SAN JOSE, Calif. , Sep 28, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Netro Corporation (Nasdaq: NTRO), a market leader in point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access systems, today announced Release 2.0 of its AirStar system, which supports additional licensed frequencies, delivers expanded data, IP and voice services and improves price performance. This builds upon Netro Corporation's AirStar Release 1.0, providing bandwidth-on-demand on a packet-by-packet basis. With Release 2.0, Netro extends AirStar's addressable market into the United States by adding 39 GHz licensed frequency support and into Latin America by adding support for the 10 GHz Latin American channel plan. This enables competitive service providers to deploy a single networking product in multiple markets worldwide. AirStar already supports 26 GHz, which addresses portions of the European and Latin American markets. In further extending service providers' addressable market, Release 2.0 now has more subscriber network interface options available. Netro has also improved both the AirStar system's price performance and expanded the breadth of service revenues a carrier can generate. Release 2.0 increases channel capacity enabling individual subscribers to burst up to 16 Mbps, integrates the modem unit into the hub chassis, and increases the port density and capacity of the sector control hardware. CellMAC(TM), Netro's proprietary networking protocol that allows AirStar to dynamically allocate bandwidth to individual subscribers, expands AirStar's bandwidth-on-demand service offering support beyond IP services. With AirStar Release 2.0, competitive service providers can now support intelligent signaling of voice applications, such as PRI-ISDN and DASS2, and Frame Relay data services to increase service revenue and achieve considerable equipment savings. "Release 2.0 makes the business case for competitive service providers even more compelling than before," said Gideon Ben-Efraim, president and chief executive officer of Netro Corporation. "The secret ingredient of AirStar is its sophisticated networking architecture that enables us to quickly bring new services to market. This architecture helps ensure that service providers receive optimal price performance and increased effective transmission capacity through statistical multiplexing. We are always focusing on new ways to help our customers increase profits and provide better services to their business customers." Release 2.0 has been in field trials since July 1999 and has been tested by Lucent Technologies' laboratories at their Wireless Broadband Network Division, which resells the AirStar product as OnDemand Wireless Access under a global OEM agreement with Netro Corporation. "Our extensive market experience with over 30 sites worldwide and the guidance from our partners (Lucent and Siemens/Italtel) has allowed us to design the feature set of AirStar to meet the needs of competitive service providers globally," noted John Perry, chief technology officer and vice president of R&D for Netro Corporation. "We are a market leader with one of the first commercially available bandwidth-on-demand point-to-multipoint systems. With Release 2.0 we extend our leadership position and provide the feature set that we think will allow carriers to begin nationwide deployments of the AirStar broadband wireless access system." About AirStar Netro's AirStar family of products transmits voice, IP and Frame Relay services to small and mid-sized enterprise (SME) and supports licensed frequencies at 10, 26 and 39 GHz. Netro's patented CellMAC, or media access control layer, coupled with the product's time division multiple access (TDMA) and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) foundation, enables service providers to affordably meet the needs of the SME market by dynamically delivering packetized voice and data traffic.