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To: Zeke who wrote (51340)	11/21/1999 10:46:00 PM
From: Rick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

"The technology is in place to do this now and a CDMA link to a car radio would be an important part of it." I saw a report on cable yesterday about a pilot project being run out of Buffalo. It seems about 600 cars are connected by wireless and GPS to the local 911 number. When one of them ran off the road and up an embankment the first thing the dazed driver heard was "Mr Smith, how are you," from his car. When he responded "I'm on my side, the "car" answered back "I know that already." Fred

To: Zeke who wrote (51340)	11/22/1999 8:50:00 AM
From: Cooters	Respond to of 152472

<<The point is that wireless technology is not always voice. I think the computer to machine link is as important and only waiting to be exploited>> I took an advanced TCP/IP class a few years ago where we looked at IPV6, a new version of IP designed to increase the number of available IP addresses(amongst other things) up to some incredible number - hundreds of billions or trillions I think. Anyway, this seemed to be overkill until the prof explained how inanimate objects, like Coke machines and traffic lights, may one day have their own IP. How interesting wireless may actually make this happen. Also very interesting what type of royalty those devices might generate. Cooters