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Technology Stocks : TeraGLOBAL Communications Corp. (TGCC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ddl who wrote (231)	12/7/2000 6:49:24 AM
From: TheSlowLane	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 235

ddl - Look at the quality of live video that the Internet supports. It is unrealistic to believe that anyone can deliver real-time, full-screen, full-motion video at 30 frames-per-second over the Internet as it exists today. Even if you have a supercomputer on your desktop. Particularly if you want to be able to scale up to include dozens or hundreds or thousands of endpoints (as is the claim). Second, the notion was to design a software-only system. Videoconferencing on a Wintel platform requires a dedicated piece of hardware in your computer to run the CODEC (compression/decompression). Hardware that gets obsoleted fairly quickly. The G4 processor was chosen for the task because it was specifically designed to be able to handle the DSP tasks that are traditionally done by dedicated DSP chips as well as the general purpose computing tasks. Same reason that this processor is used by Mercury Computer Systems to, for example, build the engines that drive GE's LightSpeed medical imaging system. The Intel processors are almost at the point where it is conceivable that they can be used for TGCC's purposes but it also required the engineering team to get over their virulent anti-Intel predisposition. If you can get a Yugo to perform like a Porsche (for the price of a Yugo), no doubt you will be able to sell a lot of them. I think most engineers will tell you it can't be done. The Teramedia solution is being modified to be able to run over IP-based networks (in addition to ATM) but that doesn't mean that you will be able to run over the Internet without seriously compromising quality. You'll still need dedicated links. Hope this helps.