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To: John Biddle who wrote (2183)	10/11/1999 2:18:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 13582

Lucent Demo, Geneva> Lucent Demos Are Firsts Company marks multimedia wireless transmission and mulitmode fiber demo break barriers Marguerite Reardon, Data Communications Lucent Technologies announced two firsts at their Telecom 99 press conference today. At their booth at Telecom 99 (stand number 1130.046C), Lucent publicly demonstrated the first multimedia transmission between two wireless networks based on the new IMT 2000 (International Mobile Telecom) standard, which was adopted by the ITU for next generation wireless networks to replace GSM. In the demonstration, Lucent transmitted voice and video between a base station using wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) technology, the European standard and another based on IS-2000, the U.S. standard. Both of the implementations have been proposed for next generation wireless networks and have been agreed upon by several global wireless operators and equipment manufacturers. The demo consists of live two-way video transmissions between the two stations. Across the Atlantic Ocean at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ, researchers set a new record for multimode fiber transmission. Researchers were able to send 10 Gbit/s over 1.6 km of Lucent's Lazrspeed multimode fiber used in local area networks. Previously, 300 meters was considered the maximum capacity for practical multimode systems.

To: John Biddle who wrote (2183)	10/11/1999 2:44:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

The VALUE may turn out that those that can afford have so much better operations wiht it that they buy up all those little poor ones who can't afford it. A $3500 terminal is cheap if you still have your $150k truck at the end of the day. Also if phone service is terrible in most areas outside the main cities, then it would seem that those that can afford the terminal and the service would perform MUCH better than those that still rely on daily human contact to book loads. Also once it is approved, then there could very well be entrepenurial forces who buy up terminals and lease them to small poor operations per month by bundling it into the cost of service. i.e. Hire OMNI to be the terminal provider and provide the data feed, and then comingle the dispatchers and sales poeple to provide a trucking booking, communications, and tracking service.