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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (36284)	10/17/2010 9:28:54 AM
From: ftth	Respond to of 46821

Thanks Peter. Noting the age of those links (~8-9 years old) I did a quick search for something recent. One thing I found, based on the info in the presentation link you provided, was this, from March 2003: "AIRFIBER CEO CALLS SECTOR DEAD By Ed Gubbins Hours after resigning as director and CEO of recently disbanded free-space optics vendor AirFiber, Brett Helm declared the sector dead. There will never be an ongoing, viable business for free-space optics, other than maybe a product line in a company that might do disaster recovery,” Helm told Telephony last week. “It won't be a stand-alone business.”" full article: connectedplanetonline.com Back to the presentation, besides Airfiber they mention Terabeam and Lightpoint. Terabeam was bought in 2004 and has a different focus but the name is still around: seattlepi.com (entering terabeam.com redirects to proxim.com and it appears to be a conglomeration of M&A activity over the years) Lightpointe ( lightpointe.com ) seems to be the only one remaining in their original form. So I guess there was enough of a market for one player to make it as a stand alone business. It appears the US market has a negative or at best luke warm view of the technology, and it persists due to interest in other regions. If I recall correctly, Lightpoint had from the beginning sought markets outside the US. Maybe that was their key reason for surviving.