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To: foundation who wrote (20174)	3/11/2002 8:29:35 AM
From: Kent Rattey	Respond to of 197628

Speaking of Viterbi Monday March 11, 8:21 am Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Flarion Technologies Flarion Brings Always-on Mobile Broadband Access Demonstration to Major Cities with Cell-on-Light- Truck -COLT- Cities Include Orlando at the CTIA Show, Atlanta, Boston, New York, San Jose, and Washington D.C. BEDMINSTER, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2002-- Flarion Technologies, the architect of flash-OFDM(TM) mobile broadband network technology, is demonstrating a true broadband experience for mobile users in major cities to network operators, government officials, analysts, journalists, and companies interested in becoming flash-OFDM alliance members. Using a Cell-on-Light-Truck known as a COLT, which is equipped with two base stations and an IP network, Flarion can drive from city to city and demonstrate mobile access to popular business and consumer applications, such as Virtual Private Network (VPN), Voice over IP (VoIP), multimedia streaming, online gaming, Internet Protocol (IP) video/camera feed using Ricoh's RDC-i700 Wireless Digital Camera, Instant Messaging and Web browsing. The Flarion base station serves Flarion wireless modems that are plugged into standard digital video cameras, laptops and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). Flarion's flash-OFDM mobile broadband system is a packet-switched radio access network that seamlessly transports IP services over-the-air between an IP network and a user device - with no changes to the IP protocol, applications, devices, or content. With flash-OFDM, the desktop experience is mobilized with `always on' broadband connectivity to any laptop, PDA or other IP-enabled device. Flarion's technology allows mobile network operators to profitably offer ``anytime, always on'' broadband connectivity to enterprise users and consumers. ``With our COLT, we have mobilized Flarion's flash-OFDM network to bring always-on broadband speed and user experience to any doorstep in America,'' said Flarion's vice president of business development and marketing, Peter Carson. ``When participants plug our wireless modem into their laptops or PDAs, they are not only amazed by the data speed and response time of our system, but how we transparently make their entire suite of existing IP applications move. They also see a world of possibilities and new applications that were previously untenable due to inadequate network response times.'' To date, Flarion has successfully demonstrated mobile broadband with the COLT in New York and Washington D.C. The Flarion COLT will next travel onto Orlando, Florida to showcase the flash-OFDM system at the CTIA Wireless 2002 trade show on March 18-20, booth #4963. After CTIA, Flarion's COLT will visit cities including Atlanta, Boston, San Jose, Kansas City, Seattle, and San Diego. Flarion has an FCC trial license for the 700 MHz frequency band and is building commercial products for the 800 and 1900 MHz cellular frequencies. Its flash-OFDM technology offers users burst data rates of 3 Megabits-per-second (Mbps) and data rates of 384 Kilobits-per-second (Kbps) at the edge of a cell. The system's Quality of Service (QoS) feature allows service providers to offer flat rate pricing for tiered classes of service, enabling licensed operators worldwide the ability to offer profitable mobile data services to multiple customer segments, including the most demanding business users. About Flarion Technologies Flarion Technologies is mobilizing the Internet with its innovative mobile communications network technology, flash-OFDM(TM). This technology will make seamless mobile broadband access to the Internet truly affordable to the mass market - anytime, anywhere. Flarion's flash-OFDM technology, which originated in Bell Labs, enables mobile network operators to profitably offer Internet Protocol (IP)-based broadband services. Flarion's mobile broadband network unwires the Internet at a lower cost than any other mobile system in the world. Flarion's RadioRouter(TM) base station product easily overlays onto an operator's existing network and radio spectrum, and provides a seamless routing interface to the operator's existing IP network. Flarion's flash-OFDM-based devices provide users mobile Internet access with a true broadband experience. Flarion Technologies is based in Bedminster, New Jersey (USA). Investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Cisco Systems, Equitek Capital, New Venture Partners II LP, Nassau Capital, and Pequot Capital. More information about Flarion can be accessed at www.flarion.com Note to editors: Flarion, flash-OFDM and RadioRouter are trademarks of Flarion Technologies. Other trademarks and registered trademarks referenced herein remain the property of their respective owners. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Flarion Technologies Media: Ronny Haraldsvik, 1 (408) 202-4278 ronny@flarion.com or The Devon Group Jeanne Achille, 1 (732) 542-2000, ext. 11 jeanne@devonpr.com

To: foundation who wrote (20174)	3/11/2002 9:44:08 AM
From: Jeff Vayda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197628

Interesting article Ben. Can you say "Contradiction"? Jeff Vayda from your post: snip<<...LG Telecom said yesterday that the company would not launch commercial operations of a CDMA2000 1X EV-DO (evolution data optimized) network. At a Kosdaq conference held at the Shilla Hotel, LG Telecom Senior Managing Executive Lee Sang-min said the company is not considering to upgrade its mobile phone network to the EV-DO, because of low demand and technological glitches. ....>> Then this from Monet's PR: LG Electronics, one of the world's leading providers of CDMA infrastructure equipment, provided equity and equipment financing to the company. LG's technology is being used in Monet's current markets, and will be deployed in additional markets in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. "When we saw how Monet was using CDMA2000 1X and their plans for 1xEV-DO, we instantly wanted to be involved beyond our role as an equipment vendor," said Ghung Gun Park, president and chief executive officer of Information and communications system company of LG Electronics. "As the market leader of CDMA 2000 in Korea, we've seen the impact this technology has made in Asia. We expect Monet will catapult its adoption in the U.S."

To: foundation who wrote (20174)	3/11/2002 11:38:48 AM
From: rkral	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 197628

All you really get with dv is the mixing of data+voice - against Viterbi's very good judgement... Ben, If it's not too much trouble, would you please provide a link to Viterbi's expression of that opinion? I share his opinion. With all the CDMA2000 spectrum (in any one geographical area) devoted to 1xEV-DV, the system can adapt to current demands, 100% voice, or 100% data, or any voice/data combo in between. But is this what carriers want? In particular, would they want 100% of the capacity used for voice? An analogy: When installing a phone system for a company, one can install incoming trunks (for network originated calls only), outgoing trunks (for office originated calls only), two-way trunks (either end originates), or any combination of the three. If 100% of the trunks are two-way, the majority may become used as outgoing trunks, drastically reducing the QoS for incoming calls, e.g., from customers. Not good! A similar situation exists for 100% 1xEV-DV ("DV"), only here the balance is between voice and data traffic. 2.5 MHz of spectrum can be allocated: 50% 1x (not 1xEV-DV), and 50% 1xEV-DO ("DO"). Guaranteeing 50% for voice comes at a price. Voice cannot use more than 50%. Ditto for data. (I may have a logic error here, since I don't yet understand the orthogonality of DO. I stated 'not DV' since 100% of capacity could then again be data.) With 3.75 MHz spectrum to allocate, one can choose 33% 1x, 33% DV, and 33% DO. (I'm thinking that this can be done with a couple extra cards in the BTS, at most.) Hopefully, one would be able to direct overflow traffic from both 1x and DO, to DV spectrum. This type of traffic management would permit between 0% and 66% of total capacity for voice, and between 0% and 66% for data, depending upon demand. Definitely better imho than 0-50%, but that extra 16% is probably not worth the trouble and cost. While writing this post, however, I realized that Qualcomm (and the standards bodies) need to include within DV specifications, the capability to configure the maximum percentage of capacity that may utilized for both voice and data. Note, the sum of the two percentages would exceed 100% in any sanely configured DV network. With the capability above, one just makes all available spectrum DV. Thanks for all your posting of news. Ron