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To: cicak who wrote (3229)	5/20/2000 8:29:00 PM
From: axial	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16863

Thread, Phil - re: your last post, the subject has appeared before, but it didn't elicit much of a dialogue. If I understand it correctly, this is RF transmission by bucket brigade. The message would be vectored, transceiver by transceiver, to the recipient. It sounds like it might make a good "fallback" network for fail-safe communication, but it would have a very low throughput. At best, message relay would be dictated by buffer size at the transceiver. If the transceiver is in (other) use, what would happen? I guess the messade would be vectored another way. Anyone else have thoughts on this? (Not trying to butt in Phil; we sort of missed this one last time it went through.) I'm sure Hatim will respond to your post if he feels it appropriate. Regards, Jim

To: cicak who wrote (3229)	5/22/2000 5:01:00 AM
From: Hatim Zaghloul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16863

Hi there, On Worldwide Wireless: I do not want to comment about Worldwide Wireless' patent. However, the concept of relaying signals via repeating stations has been around for some time and is very interesting. Without reviewing their patent, I do not know what is new in it but given that they have a patent, there should be some new and novel ideas. One of Michel's students had done an MSc on such mesh networks a few years ago. I had learnt much about them then. Many companies have systems that utilize such concepts. I believe Rooftop and Metricom use them. We may look into this some time in the future. Thanks. Hatim