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To: garyx who wrote (16818)	1/30/2000 10:21:00 PM
From: StockHawk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

>> All the other competing technologies have effective speeds of 2mbps or less, while Wi-LAN's technology allows for 46 mbps to 90mbps to possibly more mbps. Current T-1 lines, by comparison, are 1.5 mbps. QCOM's most recent test of its HDR hoped to reach 2 mbps. << The above sound interesting, but I recall hearing about other similar offerings, so I checked some press releases from ARTT and found this one: Advanced Radio Telecom to Provide Unprecedented 100Mbps High Speed Internet Access to San Jose Businesses SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 24, 1999--Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. (Nasdaq:ARTT - news) today announced that it will introduce 100Mbps Internet access service to businesses in the San Jose area beginning Sept. 8, 1999, using an unprecedented broadband fixed wireless/fiber network. Businesses in buildings connected to ART's network will be able to link their local area networks (LANs) directly to the Internet faster, easier and less expensively than with any other Internet access service available today. Internet access via ART's 100Mbps network enables the use of bandwidth intensive applications such as video streaming, large file transfers and real-time interactive collaboration that are difficult to perform using today's bandwidth-constrained local distribution infrastructure. Businesses in the San Jose area can sign up for ART's 100Mbps Internet Access Service today with a service contract starting at $1,250 per month. 'We are very simply 'changing the rules of the game' for high speed data communications,' said Henry C. (Harry) Hirsch, ART chairman and CEO. 'The world is quickly migrating up the bandwidth ladder as businesses experience the productivity benefits of high speed communications and realize the competitive advantage that it brings. By extending the technology of the fast Ethernet office LAN across its metropolitan area networks (MANs), ART is able to provide its users access to an extremely reliable, unprecedented high speed network for Internet connectivity at a very attractive price.' ART's network features a new broadband wireless radio from Triton Network Systems called Invisible Fiber(TM), as well as Ethernet routing and switching products supplied by Cisco Systems. ART will deploy the Triton Network and Cisco hardware in a self-healing ring architecture that links commercial office buildings together creating a fully redundant network capable of providing 200Mbps of total bandwidth on its bi-directional paths. As a Cisco Powered Network(TM) service provider, ART has worked very closely with Cisco Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, in designing and implementing the network. In addition, Wireless Facilities, Inc. (WFI), the leader in broadband wireless network deployments, is providing ART with turnkey network development and deployment services in support of its build out. ART will deploy these networks in the top 40 communications-intensive markets over the next few years.