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To: The Phoenix who wrote (11542)	12/7/1999 8:26:00 PM
From: SurfForWealth	Respond to of 21876

Hello everyone, This article explains the latest on the OFDM alliance situation. Looks like LU & Wi-LAN are getting cosy! LOL This could likely play a large role in this company going forward as it promises to be a huge sector. A unanimous alliance with all the key players in the many applications for this technology would be the best thing for all IMO. Cheers!!! 1 13:41 =DJ Wi-LAN Says OFDM Alliance Could Take Two Months >T.WIN By Scott Adams TORONTO (Dow Jones)--If a new alliance around orthogonal frequency division multiplexing is going to take shape, it could take about "two months" to form, as long as there are no "wrenches" thrown into the process along the way, said Wi-LAN Inc. (T.WIN) chairman, president and chief executive Hatim Zaghloul. Last week, various industry participants, including a Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) representative, attended a meeting in California to discuss harmonizing OFDM wireless communication industry standards, Zaghloul said. A Cisco spokeswoman had said a few days before the Wi-LAN meeting that no Cisco representative would attend. The meeting was organized by Wi-LAN and its partner Philips Semiconductor, a unit of Philips Electronics Ltd. (X.PHE). Wi-LAN has a Wideband-OFDM technology, while Cisco formed its own alliance around its Vector-OFDM technology. Zaghloul said Wi-LAN hasn't been dictating that it wants its W-OFDM technology to become a standard. "We're not trying to push W-OFDM. W-OFDM's beauty right now in the industry arena is that Wi-LAN never proposed it. It's the sort of natural progression of the industry... Lucent, the biggest player in the wireless arena, is the one who proposed it," he said. Past experience shows that one company shouldn't try to impose standards on an industry, he said. "We need the whole industry to move forward." "One of the purposes of the alliance should be to clear up...any intellectual property issues," Zaghloul said. Zaghloul declined to speculate which companies would be part of the new OFDM alliance. He said a new alliance could still include Cisco and the partners that joined the Cisco-led OFDM alliance. Some of the Cisco alliance members attended Wi-LAN's meeting last week, he said. Zaghloul said it is still Wi-LAN's opinion that Cisco's V-OFDM technology violates Wi-LAN's W-OFDM patent. "V-OFDM and W-OFDM aren't mutually exclusive," he said. "It is Wi-LAN's view right now that, in all likelihood, Cisco uses W-OFDM and just uses multiple antennas on top of it. So it is not W-OFDM or V-OFDM. V-OFDM is a variation of W-OFDM (in Wi-LAN's opinion)," Zaghloul said. In the past, Cisco has said that it doesn't believe its V-OFDM technology infringes on any Wi-LAN patents. -Scott Adams, Dow Jones Newswires; 416-306-2026; scott.adams@dowjones.com (END) DOW JONES NEWS 12-07-99 01:41 PM- - 01 41 PM EST 12-07-99