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To: taxman who wrote (28873)	10/26/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 77400

Taxman and All: Interesting article:Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a leading provider of integrated circuits enabling broadband communications to and throughout the home and business, today announced a joint development program with Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) to develop a high performance Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for the broadband fixed wireless market that incorporates breakthrough radio frequency (RF) technology known as Vector Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (VOFDM). The custom digital chip development is part of a larger Broadcom and Cisco effort to establish an open broadband fixed wireless standard based on VOFDM. Broadcom and Cisco engineers will work side by side to develop a full custom CMOS, single-chip wireless modem ASIC, containing both a Media Access Control (MAC) layer and an advanced wireless Physical Layer, that enables a robust, cost-effective broadband fixed wireless solution to be offered to multiple equipment vendors on the open market. The advanced VOFDM physical layer technology enables reliable communication in wireless links where line-of-sight connections are not practical. The modem is capable of providing users with data rates greater than 40 million bits per second (Mbps) in both the downstream and upstream directions. JFD