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To: Hiram Walker who wrote (1901)	1/25/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: Hiram Walker	Respond to of 4134

To All. A small blurb of interest fromm Marty Kaplan,CTO of Sprint and technologist of the year in Americasnetwork. "If you look down the road, you'll see network architects working on what they call passive optical solutions," he explains. "These are nothing more than an optical connection to the home. If you have a wavelength right to your home, the bandwidth is only defined by the electronics that you can put on it. The secret is not to string fiber to the doorstep right away (which is prohibitively expensive), but to back it up to an intermediate distribution point that serves a limited number of homes." Effective use Thus, the priority for the telecommunications industry is not to develop further technologies, but use existing ones more effectively, according to Kaplan. He believes final-mile connections will be a mix of wireless, satellite and physical (fiber and copper) facilities. "In my opinion, if we don't soon open up and figure out our access strategy, history will pass us by," he observes. But, how will the access issue finally play out? "There has got to be a carrier that breaks new ground," Kaplan predicts. "Someone must demonstrate a new world of applications that are implementable using existing technology and for which there is a major need. "At the end of the day, it is society that suffers if this does not happen," he says. "In my opinion, the only way to support end users is to find out what they need and how we can supply this need over the media we have at our disposal. Then we must market, sell, and run with those applications." ÿTim

To: Hiram Walker who wrote (1901)	1/25/1998 10:41:00 PM
From: Scotsman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4134

Thanks for the info. Most interesting Well, now we have the White House in disarray, and the Bronco's, an AFC team, won the Superbowl. Doesn't look too good for the market, at least short term.

To: Hiram Walker who wrote (1901)	1/26/1998 3:18:00 AM
From: Marshall	Respond to of 4134

Say "Hiram" - don't miss the article in the Jan 15 America's Network: americasnetwork.com Matter of fact don't forget the publication either: americasnetwork.com Well, my Broncos won and now a herd of people are saying that every time the AFC wins the Super Bowl the market has closed down for the year + they're compounding it with the Clinton thing. I posted the following in the "Tech Stock Options" thread: First - some are worried we'll be stuck with Gore as a premature President. Second - there's this silly superstition related to the AFC winning the Super Bowl meaning that the markets will close down for the year. Come on folks - how many times has this happened - enough to form a valid indicator based on sentiment? Any of you long-term chart people ever look at what some of the "underdog stocks" did for the months following this occurance in the past? Could prove interesting. Cheers - might want to bone back up on RACE a bit. Still a tad early for the string of press releases we've been hoping for but it's looking much better in the background - drop me a line.