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To: Mila Hanson who wrote (3559)	12/14/1997 4:12:00 PM
From: lisa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10479

Mila, Did Xin mention anything about how far along NASA was in testing of Gigamux? In other words, how long has NASA had the thing plugged in?

To: Mila Hanson who wrote (3559)	12/14/1997 7:28:00 PM
From: CH	Respond to of 10479

Mila wrote, >>>>...IMO it is not that unrealistic considering that Ciena had only one product and two customers last year and was able to achieve such results. By comparison, Osicom has three new great products coming on the market next year>>> That may be the cause of all these problems happened in such a small company with so many good things in her pockets. If I recalled correctly, I read many good magazines reviews about Osicom's Nethooper many months ago , which was the ISDN router similar to Ascend router (model 700 I guess). Ascend earned a lot of money by concentrating on seling its routers and Osicom probably has written off a lot of its inventory if they still carrying this product (because of the general price drop, and because I did not see it has sold a lot of this item). Sometimes we should suggest the Management to concentrate on a few of the great products and to forget the others for a while even though we had though the acquisition becuase this is the name of the game in NA technology market. I personally saw Osicom was moving to this direction, as a few months ago, we even did not know what was their trump card. But they should do more on that to recover. CH

To: Mila Hanson who wrote (3559)	12/14/1997 10:35:00 PM
From: Mark[ox5]	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10479

Question no one addressed: What is the status of national market listing? I rememeber reading this was "imminent" 4 months ago. And someone on the thread asked it of the people attending the meeting. Did anyone ask? If not please ask 12/22 if possible or David if you talk to them frequently.. just wondering if any update on that mess. Thanks, Mark

To: Mila Hanson who wrote (3559)	12/14/1997 10:43:00 PM
From: David Pawlak	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10479

Mila- I heard about the error free transmission about a week and a half ago. I heard a couple versions from 2 somewhat indirect sources. The first I heard was that an evaluator sent 1 trillion bits of data error free and the other story sent 100 trillion bits of data error free. Well , if the Gigamux can send 40 Gigabytes per second and there are 8 bits per byte, then a 1 trillion bit information transfrer would be a 3.125 second error free test. 1,000,000,000,000/8/40,000,000,000 = 3.125 seconds Now, if it was a 100 trillion bit data transfer test, then it would have taken 5 inutes and 20 seconds. 100,000,000,000,000/ 8/40,000,000,000 = 312.5 seconds or 5 minutes and 20 seconds Both those tests imply that the Gigamux was opperating optimally and at full 16 channel capacity. I would think an evaluator would run it through the most rigorous test, which would lead to the latter test I described. But to send that much data error free is still phenominal!!! Typically, when you send a huge amount of data, there are bits that get squweezed or screwed up somehow in the transmission. If the gigamux is this accurate, then I can certainly see why Xin was so confident about his product being superior to the competition on the conference call. I need to clarify how many bits were actually sent error free right from the source. Speaking of the competition, I listened to CIEN's conference call last week. It seems that their competing Metro DWDM product that was slated to be released within the next couple months, won't be commercially available until the second half of next year. What a shame :) I think some of you are finally starting to see why I'm so bullish on this stock, and those people are the ones who seem to be doing the digging. For those of you who went to the meeting, thanks for the scoup!