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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (4991)	2/5/2002 2:11:44 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

Hi Ray, Actually, some of Teledesic's earlier claims boasted some fairly high data rates, relatively speaking. This is from a 1997 TD release that I found on waybackmachine's archive site (are they claiming the same today? I don't know): "Most users will have two-way connections that provide up to 64 Mbps on the downlink and up to 2 Mbps on the uplink. Broadband terminals will offer 64 Mbps of two-way capacity. This represents access speeds up to 2,000 times faster than today's standard analog modems." web.archive.org I'm not aware of what their claim is today. Also, it's notable that TD's earliest designs were heavily weighted in ISDN and ATM, although they did claim to be able to support IP, as well. The latter is another sign that they cobbled a design together in order to satisfy the demands of a different, earlier model, as I suggested yesterday. My guess would be that they've adapted their thinking to be more in line with today's state of the art, i.e., today's newer Internet modality and protocols. I'll give them a closer look tonight, unless someone else can expand on the matter. FAC