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To: Greg h2o who wrote (20021)	4/4/2000 9:42:00 AM
From: tony	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

This is Q2, 2000.

To: Greg h2o who wrote (20021)	4/4/2000 9:48:00 AM
From: Greg h2o	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

High Bandwidth to the "Last Mile" Through Fiberless Optics? TeraBeam Networks was founded in December of 1997 with the objective of breaking the bandwidth bottleneck that exists between business users on Local Area Networks (LANs) and the nation's long-haul wide area networks (WANs). This local loop access bottleneck, commonly described as the 'last mile problem' or the 'first mile problem', has been a major roadblock on the way to a realizing the full potential of the Internet and intranets. There have been tremendous advances in bandwidth on either side of the local loop from Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM), optical switching, Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet. Unfortunately, the benefits of these innovations have been dramatically reduced by slow local loop access between LANs and WANs. With TeraBeam, the 'first mile' from the LAN to the long-haul fiber network is no longer the 'slow mile'. TeraBeam's Service TeraBeam Networks offers services that extend the LAN bandwidth of Fast and Gigabit Ethernet directly to the nation's wide area networks or across town to other LANs. The service provides standards based IP connectivity directly through a customer premises window using patent pending Fiberless Optics?. Because TeraBeam's Fiberless Optics? liberates high bandwidth from fiber, no trenching or building wiring is required to establish the service. The result is broadband IP connectivity to the Internet and intranets that is quick to provision, highly scalable and much less expensive than fiber. TeraBeam Networks constructed its first IP routed Fiberless Optics? network in 1998. From 1998 to the present, TeraBeam has refined its technology and expanded its point-to-multipoint IP Metropolitan Area Network serving Seattle's urban core. Commercial service will be launched in summer of 2000 with the top national and international markets served over the next 3 years.