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To: t2 who wrote (62094)	10/22/2002 11:42:12 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77397

Yeah, I agree, if Cisco can make their numbers. If they miss, then there will be a bloodbath in the markets. But Nov thru March are usually good months in the markets. So I bet we are now starting a steady march upwards. The only thing that may derail it will be a war with Iraq, a new terrorist action in the US, or Cisco missing their numbers. Cross your fingers!

To: t2 who wrote (62094)	10/22/2002 1:33:54 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 77397

I found an offbeat site that seems to pick up some interesting broadband-related news stories. It also has an area where customers can rate broadband services. broadbandreports.com Here's a few interesting tidbits imo- Charter Upgrades Network New Cisco routers to cut network congestion Citing customers who fled to satellite services as the reason for the upgrade, Charter has announced plans to beef up their cable network by utilizing DOCSIS 1.1-qualified Cisco "uBR10012" cable modem termination system (CMTS) routers. To help prevent further cable to satellite customer erosion, cable companies are betting on latency dependent interactive technologies (like internet telephony) to give them an edge in providing voice/data/video combination packages. The upgrades should also ease congestion issues in some of Charter's densest subscriber regions. He's Got X-Ray Eyes Ultra-Wideband sees battle application Much ado has been made about Ultra-Wideband (technical specs), a technology with the capability of transmitting data at speeds of as much as 40 to 60 megabits per second. Even greater ado has been made over the FCC's turtle like acceptance of the technology, triggered by an uncertainty (some say unwarranted) over the technology's interference with existing technologies. An interesting adoption of the technology is being toyed with by the military. Using UWB in cooperation with ground-penetrating radar may allow soldiers to see through walls. Sports as Killer App? Baseball, American football find on-line success After a series of rights squabbles the past few years, the National Football League has had significant success offering on-line radio game broadcasts via their hosting partners, CBS/Viacom/AOL. Major League Baseball took it a step further and now has 150,000 paying subscribers to its content package, which includes live audio game broadcasts and video content. On August 26th the MLB association broadcast an entire video streamed baseball game via the internet for the first time. As ISP Planet argues, one of the holy grails of broadband has been found, and it is streaming sports content. Forty-One Million File Traders User base continues to grow despite campaign More evidence that the file trading storm has no plans of ceasing: MSNBC reports on a new batch of statistics from Odyssey research indicates that 41 million people traded music online during the first half of 2002. According to Jupiter Media Metrix, there were thirty nine million file traders in the summer of 2000, a number that has grown despite a massive legal and PR campaign by the record industry. As an aside, the Odyssey report is entitled "Digital Music: The Industry Can Either Get On The Train Or Get Under It.”