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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (537)	8/1/2000 8:51:16 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi Frank, now wasn't the idea (ref'd in the cc) that the 2 systems served different segments of the route, and that linked together they were closer to a "complete" IR solution (whatever that may mean in this context)? Maybe LU couldn't come up with a way to reach their target price point for the end-user with their system (or maybe that was never the intention), but had it worked out for spinal transport, whereas TB was the opposite? Maybe TB had a gaping hole in the connection of their IR islands to the outside world, with only "ideas" on how to solve it. Maybe TB approached LU first, intent on filling that hole? There was, after all, quite a bit of press on LU's system (see below for example), such that TB could have a pretty good idea whether it filled a hole before even contacting them first, if that is in fact what happened. In the video transport demos LU did w/ OpticAir, they "used their VideoStar MPEG-2 video encoding system to compress and multiplex HDTV and SDTV signals into DVB-ASI transport streams compatible with standards-based digital cable modulators. These DVB-ASI streams are then converted into ATM virtual circuits by Lucent's LinkRunner-TXA video gateway and routed via Lucent's GX-550 ATM switch to the OpticAir system. OpticAir transmits these Signals through the air to a remote LinkRunner-TXA that converts the transmission back into ASI streams that are directly fed to digital cable modulators for broadcasting to the home." (snipped from Lasers & Optronics, Feb 2000 p6).