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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (164)	6/11/2000 12:50:00 AM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Meteor burst communications have been around for a long time--decades at least (general note: this is not a company name; it's a technology). They're in use and have provided reliable telemetry links in several mundane applications for quite a while. The paper I saw was referencing modernized, signal-processing-intensive improvements to up the data rates by an order of magnitude or more [which would potentially open it up to more applications]. That's not so far-fetched considering the deployed systems are using circa 1970's technology. Nothing unbelievable would have to be done to provide improvements. But it's not a consumer-type communication system and probably never will be, so I probably could have worded that post a bit better. I don't put that in the same category as Media (con)fusion or other such systems that boast of save the world claims. BTW, wasn't Media Fusion supposed to have some big coming out party with a demo this past January? So when do you think one of the free-space optical guys will come out with a giant disco-ball dangling from a hot air balloon which is held in place by a thousand foot cable to earth?<gg> Seriously though, aren't they're going to need some sort of massive mirror arrangement to provide the claimed widespread coverage (from the claimed minimal deployment of centralized hubs) and ability to hit all sides of many different sized buildings, and these mirrors would all need to be mounted on property they don't own, would they not? [last second edit--here's a quickie blurb of a deployed meteor communications system called SNOTEL: In the 1970s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture established a netted system called SNOTEL to collect data from hundreds of unmanned remote sites spread over several western states. Subsequently, another group of. governmental agencies jointly initiated the Alaska Meteor Burst Communications System (AMBCS), composed of scores of nodes in Alaskan wilderness areas to both collect aeronautical and environmental data and provide message communications service among remote manned camps. ]