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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (7729)	7/24/2000 2:59:32 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

Mike, perhaps if I'd spelt it correctly the first time, you'd have found it. It's Vyvx, not Vyvvx. The company had its founding about eleven or twelve years ago. Here's a link that hints to its past: hoovers.com And one that describes the present: vyvx.com It's my recollection that when Williams sold their fiber unit off to Worldcom, a part of their agreement was that Williams would retain this part of their holdings in order to continue servicing their broadcast customers. At the time it was merely a couple of strands in a set of self healing rings which extnded over most of the country. These supported NBC, CBS, etc. NTSC broadcast and program transfers over T3s using what I think came to be the JPEG compression algorithm in some parts, and some proprietary (why does Grass Valley and the term "proprietary" come to mind?), I believe. I even recall reading somewhere that it consisted of a single fiber architecture at one point, but I don't know how much credibility to assign to that one. From their home page, that you should find particularly interesting, I think... "We also rolled-out 450 digital media servers to television stations across the U.S. Now, advertising content can be distributed in compressed, file-based format, with all the quality advertisers and broadcast studios expect." FAC