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To: christopher d licata who wrote (3975)	4/1/1998 5:04:00 PM
From: Doug	Respond to of 18016

Christopher: Low volume and low volatility for an extended time usually portends to a breakout either way. Whilst trading has been sub-normal this week, the daily price action has not.

To: christopher d licata who wrote (3975)	4/1/1998 10:05:00 PM
From: pat mudge	Respond to of 18016

Since this conference is being held in Canada, I'd expect NN to be involved. Does anyone have any further information? Pat <<< InterComm Looks Ahead - Huge Bandwidth, Fewer Wires Newsbytes - April 01, 1998 16:38 TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1998 APR 1 (NB) -- By Grant Buckler, Newsbytes. Massive volumes of data moving over local- and wide-area networks, and increasing use of wireless communications, were among the predictions as industry experts gathered at the InterComm 98 conference for a discussion on enterprise intranet and wide-area network trends. Dick Lush, director of enterprise networking offers for Lucent Technologies Inc., said growing use of the Internet, integration of voice and data and other network innovations continue to drive the need for more bandwidth, and the demand will be met. In the labs at Lucent, he said, researchers have been able to transmit two terabits per second, or the equivalent of some 36 million T1 lines over a single optical fiber. One of the technologies widely seen as an answer to the need for faster communications is Digital Subscriber Line (DSL). Edward Olkkola, vice-president of business development and strategic planning at Compaq Computer Corp., gave an indication of that technology's future when he said Compaq plans to include Asynchronous DSL (ADSL) interfaces as standard equipment in some of its personal computers by the end of this year. Richard Cantin, vice-president of marketing for Internet service provider (ISP) UUNet Canada, forecasted more use of virtual private networks (VPNs) for corporate communications between remote sites. While leased lines were a good approach for connecting two specific sites, he said, when an organization needs to link up multiple sites the best option is to hook them all to the Internet and use the "public cloud," protecting the privacy of communications through VPN technology. Wide-area networking and the Internet are putting greater demands on local-area networks, Lush said. Coupled with that is the trend to integrate voice and data networking -- a step many organizations will complete in the next couple of years. Lush noted that ironically, while voice networks are more complex than data networks they are also far more reliable today. Data networking has some catching up to do, he said. Wireless networking has up to now lagged behind the traditional wired kind in speed and reliability. That is changing, said Jesse Russell, vice-president of advanced communications technology at AT&T. Increasingly, Russell said, wireless networks will be expected to provide the same kind of performance as wired networks. He predicted they will rise to the challenge, and "most communications within premises will be wireless." Over all, the panelists were optimistic. Cantin said that while there are some problems with technology, and some potential for abuse, "there's a lot of great benefits to be had from technology if the focus is to get business benefits." And Lush concluded that while networks are getting more complex, there are "lots of tools" to simplify and manage them, and bandwidth will be available when it is needed. >>>