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To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (519)	12/3/1999 2:37:00 PM
From: StockDung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 538

Stock is down now. Seems like another flop. Bain must mean Scallola in Hindu. Just remember that these Crims will try anything to keep the stock above $9 so they can exercise their warrants.

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (519)	12/3/1999 6:59:00 PM
From: Pluvia	Respond to of 538

Auric, I wonder how the Bains brain surgeons expect to beat Cisco's products when Cisco's market leading product has not even been unveiled - and when it does it'll make AMPD an obvious nobody in the biz... I spect AMPD is belly up and outta money by then anyhooo. I understand defending themselves against all them lawyers gets expensive... My guy said the chicken was rubbery and the mushroom sauce pretty average... dailynews.yahoo.com ************************************************* Wednesday December 1 5:25 PM ET Cisco Has New Wireless Strategy By CLIFF EDWARDS AP Technology Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Internet equipment provider Cisco Systems Inc (NasdaqNM:CSCO - news). on Wednesday offered a new approach to bringing high-speed, low-cost Web connections to homes and businesses. In an attempt to resolve a problem that has plagued television watchers and cellular phone users in big cities for years, Cisco plans to market technology that essentially harnessesand redirects the voice and data microwave signals that bounce off many obstructions in large cities. When these signals ricochet off obstacles like buildings, trees and hills, they cause ``ghosting' that distorts pictures on televisions and interferes with cell phone calls. The service is called multichannel multipoint distribution services, or MMDS. It could help companies such as MCI Worldcom that are hoping to provide local phone and Internet services to businesses and consumers in large metropolitan areas avoid the billions of dollars in costs of building expensive fiber optic networks. It also could speed reliance on the Internet for commerce, learning and entertainment - a key goal for Cisco and its core business of providing equipment to connect business computer systems. ``Our goal is to be able to build alternative access technologies ... and provide consistent service delivery' overany type of communications device,' said Don Listwin, Cisco's executive vice president for corporate marketing. Engineers at Clarity Wireless, which Cisco acquired last year, decided to adapt ghosting phenomenon, which has troubled many consumers, and special encoding techniques to transmit digital voice and data, eliminating what had been an obstacle to reliable communication - the need for fixed lines of sight between the transmitter and the receiver. With a base station that costs $150,000 and small cellular towers or satellite dishes, businesses could offer Internet connections and local and long-distance phone service to tens of thousands of customers in a given city. Cisco technology in the base station would allow 3,000 simultaneous users to receive data 1,000 times faster than they would from a typical voice line. The service is being touted as an inexpensive way to connect computer systems formedium- and small businesses and an alternative high-speed connection for homes. Transceivers expected to cost less than $500 could be marketed to consumers as early as June, Cisco executives said at a media and analyst briefing. While there are many competitors hoping to offer new fixed high-speed wireless service, Cisco hopes to speed acceptance of its product by revealing its technology and teaming with such powerhouses as Motorola, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and a half-dozen others to provide the service and equipment. As the Internet assumes a more important role in everday life, many businesses are offering such wireless alternatives to the telephone industry's high-speed digital phones lines, or DSL, and the cable television industry's Internet modems. Research firm CIBC World Markets estimates the point-to-point wireless equipment market will grow to $5 billion in 2003 from $2.56 billion last year, while the multichannel market is expected to jump to $3 billion by 2004 from less than $200 million next year.