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To: foundation who wrote (95836)	3/18/2001 9:54:11 AM
From: P2V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Benjamin, I would say IMO that Ole George is talkin' through his hat, just a bit, when he mentions this "War" between the two OFDM bodies. The only dispute that I know of, is between Radiata & Wi-Lan. Radiata has just recently been purchased by Cisco. The BWIF has been invited at least once (I believe more than once), to cooperate with the OFDM-Forum (which is made up of the primary Multinational Wireless manufacturers. Essentially the OFDM Forum's goal (which you can find on their Web Site), is to promote a blend of the best xOFDM, submit those proposals to the IEEE, and hopefully avoid anything like the Qualcomm vs Ericsson battle. Ole George doesn't appear to get it, I'm afraid. Flarion is free to join the OFDM Forum at any time, the forum obviously is made up of competitors, but by no stretch of the imagination are they Flarion's enemy. I believe that at least one Forum Member is pursuing a technology to transmit data via multiple sub-carriers at each hop. This will be an upgrade to their current Frequency Hopping products. This is imo ,essentially what Flarion is demonstrating. Other streaming video applications by Wi-Lan & Philips Semi. have produced bit rates in the tens of Megabits per second range. Don't know why Flarions product is so slow. Finally in regards to the Wi-Lan vs Radiata dispute, ... these are the words of a Wi-Lan Official, and IMHO The represent a sane and sound approach .. "Of course, the patent dispute is about our wish to collect royalties from any broadband 2way OFDM vendor in north America. However, this does not diminish our desire to have OFDM popular and cheap. These are contradictory positions and accordingly we have to walk a tight rope balancing them. " Best regards, Mardy