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To: SteveG who wrote (4131)	3/3/1998 8:55:00 AM
From: Steven Bowen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12468

From a link posted on the Yahoo CVUS thread; November/December '97 WinStar's Multipoint Plans WinStar has chosen Broadband Networks Inc. (BNI- see related article), to provide it with point to multipoint broadband wireless systems that will enable WinStar to offer 155 Mbps OC3's in at least one, unidentified, market. WinStar has accumulated 38 GHz licenses for the top 50 markets in the United States, and has at least 400 MHz of spectrum in the top 40. The company has announced its plans to make all of it's systems point-to-multipoint in the future. The configuration to be used in their first roll out will have four 90 degree sectorized antennas, using QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) and ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) so that from a single rooftop WinStar will be able to support four OC-3s per 100 Mhz channel. Siemens will work with BNI and WinStar to integrate the transmission systems with the back office systems. This announcement puts WinStar ahead of many planned players in the upcoming LMDS auctions, where aside from New York City, nobody owns spectrum rights in any cities. WinStar reported revenue of $68 million in 1996, and has 1375 employees. It has secured roof rights on over 1900 buildings spread across the United States. Copyright c 1997 VIPC. VIPC. (800) 798-8472 Excerpt from the Information Provider Newsletter. To subscribe call (800) 798-8472. __________________________________________________________________ Four OC-3's per 100 MHz channel = 336 T-1's = 8064 voice lines per 100 MHZ channel So, does anyone know if this means in a city like NYC (with 9 channels), do they have total capacity of; 9x4 = 36 OC-3's =9x336 = 3024 T-1's =9x8064 = 72,576 total voice lines or, could each hub reuse the same frequencies so that these numbers are really per hub?