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To: Stoctrash who wrote (45701)	10/3/1999 8:19:00 AM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

"Sony is tapping Cisco Systems, Divicom and NDS as technology partners for the Cablevision network deployment." cabledatacomnews.com CABLEVISION SELECTS SONY SET-TOP PLATFORM Operator Plans to Deploy 3 Million Interactive Digital Boxes by 2004, Values Deal at $1 Billion OCTOBER 1, 1999 Ironically, the day after the Motorola-GI merger was announced, Cablevision Systems Corp. unveiled its plan to switch from traditional cable equipment suppliers to Sony Corporation of America for its interactive digital set-top rollout. Cablevision, the seventh-largest U.S. cable operator, says it will purchase headend equipment and 3 million set-tops from Sony, primarily for deployment in metro New York City. Cablevision President and CEO James Dolan valued the deal at approximately $1 billion. Because Cablevision only serves 2.7 million subscribers in the New York area, it remains to be seen how quickly this massive purchase order will actually be fulfilled. "We will begin aggressively deploying these boxes starting in the summer of 2000," said Dolan. From that date, Dolan expects ubiquitous deployment of the boxes will take three years. The deal is a major blow to General Instrument and Scientific- Atlanta, which had been fighting for the order. Sony's OpenCable set-top platform will be designed to support an interactive program guide, broadcast digital video services, video on demand, Internet TV services, and other applications. The company plans to build two different set-tops for Cablevision. The primary box will use Sony's Aperios operating system while the second device will run a "smaller lightweight real-time operating system," according to Wilt Hildenbrand, Cablevision's senior vice president of engineering and technology. Sony is tapping Cisco Systems, Divicom and NDS as technology partners for the Cablevision network deployment.

To: Stoctrash who wrote (45701)	10/4/1999 5:52:00 AM
From: Maya	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

FredE, I do hold some options. But I done't follow them for trends etc. You have left out Oct 40, 45 which I do hold. I have those Jan 40 as well which I bought over a year ago when they were termed leaps. This time they will try to kill the 40 or 45s, I fear. But it could gap up today and keep going up. Some of the Lehman's milestones are coming up true...Divicom winning the headend at CableVision...AT&T again reinforcing open systems Message 11422148 Message 11427196