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To: mr. ed who wrote (7831)	8/4/1998 3:26:00 PM
From: Shivram Hala	Respond to of 10479

With all this hype there's still nothing in the pipe.. At one time shares were magically appearing and now our shares have begun to disappear with our money. I always get excited to see the share price between 4-5 until I realize that it's after the reverse split. techweb.com Similarly, the GigaMux optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM) with electrical photonic concentrator (EPC) technology from Osicom Technologies Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.) attempts to go further, dividing each of 32 wavelengths into 16 subchannels, yielding up to 512 protocol-independent service channels (each running at up to 155 Mbit/s) over a single fiber. The GigaMux uses EPC to inject into an optical subchannel any protocol from a single business park or building over a single, metro-area fiber. Another newcomer, Commercial Technologies Corp. (Richardson, Texas), is using code-division multiple access (CDMA) spread-spectrum transmission technologies to place a unique "bar code" on each transmission and then broadcast the transmission across an entire optical network for pickup only by other optical transceivers programmed with the same bar code. Osicom claims that these any-point-to-any-point architectures will deliver add/drop and cross-connect functionality to business sites at $20,000 to $35,000 per OC-12 (622.8 Mbit/s)-which is more than three times cheaper than a stack of Sonet and ATM gear, says Osicom executive vice president Ron Mackey. techweb.com The biggest revolution of the last six months has come from chip and subsystem vendors looking to lower the cost of embedded packet routing. At the 10-Mbit layer, Osicom Inc. is offering ARM-powered Ethernet for the factory floor, and working with programmable-control vendors to map field-bus protocols into Ether-net and TCP/IP. For 10/100 small offices and homes in the center of the Ethernet market, switch specialists like Allayer, Galileo, MMC, Texas Instruments and Xaqti are upgrading architectures this summer with complex packet-analysis functions at unprecedented levels of price and power dissipation. techweb.com Group formed to link field buses, Ethernet Waltham, Mass. - Osicom Technologies Inc.'s Embedded Networking Solutions Division, supplier of the NET+ARM chip for embedded Ethernet (see Jan. 5, page 1), has formed the Industrial Automation Open Networking Alliance to bring together deterministic field buses and TCP/IP protocol stacks. Its partners are Hirschmann GmbH, Schneider Automation Inc. and Object Automation Inc. The concept, according to division president Cornelius (Pete) Peterson, is to allow such industrial buses as Profibus, DeviceNet, CAN and FieldBus to be bridged to an Ethernet hardware base and TCP/IP protocol stack. Programmable logic controllers on the factory floor could then be accessed by Web-based browsers using HTML.