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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (6754)	3/29/2000 7:06:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Re: LMDS Vendor- AFCI and LMDS SP-NXLK Thread- For those that don't know, Winstar(a LMDS SP) is Advanced Fiber Communications largest customer. Apparently NextLink(sym:NXLK) has also chosen AFCI for the same product AFCI supplies to Winstar. -MikeM(From Florida) ****************** NEXTLINK Selects Advanced Fibre Communications for Voice And Data Platform Solutions** PETALUMA, Calif., March 28-- Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc, announced today that NEXTLINK Communications has selected AFC to provide voice and data platform solutions. NEXTLINK is one of the nation's fastest growing providers of broadband communications services. The NEXTLINK contract for AFC's Universal Modular Carrier (UMC1000) Multi-Service Access Platform will complement NEXTLINK's broadband strategy to serve advanced voice and data solutions to its customers. The platform utilizes a hybrid ATM/TDM architecture, which provides a variety of loop interfaces for POTS, ISDN, T-1/E-1, HDSL and ADSL services over various feeder transmission options, including copper, fiber, and wireless. "This platform's low fixed cost and ability to add enhanced broadband and data services, as the customer needs them, optimizes NEXTLINK's network investment decisions and minimizes their risks," said Mehmet Balos, AFC vice president of global marketing and North American sales. "This contract serves as a testimony to our strategy of minimizing the cost of ownership through the advantages of an end-to-end integrated Multi-Service Access Platform."

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (6754)	4/13/2000 12:38:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Re: LMDS Supplier- Alpha Industries Supplying Newbridge Thread- I'm always on the lookout for evidence of strength in newly developing technologies. Here's another small indicator that LMDS appears to be for real with regards to Newbridge. NN's Matthews emphasized that LMDS was very strong for them a few months back in their warning CC. All recent indications seem to back his statements about LMDS. -MikeM(From Florida) ******************** Alpha Industries Shipping GaAs High-Performance Amplifiers for Newbridge Networks LMDS System WOBURN, Mass., Apr 13, 2000-- Alpha Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AHAA) announced today that it is shipping production volumes of high-performance gallium arsenide (GaAs) amplifiers for use in Local Multipoint Distribution System (LMDS) equipment provided by Newbridge Networks. Alpha's GaAs amplifiers, operating at 28GHz, are used in LMDS equipment that offers very high-speed broadband data, Internet and telecommunications access. LMDS offers data rates of up to 150 MBps, without the high network installation costs of many other broadband data solutions. A compact base station and simple customer premises equipment provides direct wireless links to businesses and homes. "Alpha's strategic decision to develop proprietary, enabling technology for broad-band data access markets, including LMDS, is paying off**," stated Colin Sweeney, Alpha's Director of Application Specific Products. "We are now seeing orders and shipments for our GaAs ICs into a broad range of high-speed wireless and cable data access equipment. Alpha intends to be a major provider of proprietary GaAs IC-based solutions in these exciting high-growth markets."