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To: George Gilder who wrote (793)	11/1/1998 5:23:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 5853

hehehe... you're too funny... >>But what is the total volume in bytes of the Library of Congress? << I'll tell you that if you tell me how many electrons your toaster uses on a hot day... Frank ps - second thought, don't bother... I don't know how many bytes the LOC contains.

To: George Gilder who wrote (793)	11/1/1998 6:08:00 PM
From: Sawtooth	Respond to of 5853

<<But what is the total volume in bytes of the Library of Congress?>> George: If you watch a Qwest commercial, then you know that the number of bytes comprising the total volume of the library of congress is equal to the number of bytes that can be passed coast to coast across Qwest's system within the life of a shooting star. Not quite the answer but working towards it. ; ) Best.

To: George Gilder who wrote (793)	11/2/1998 7:41:00 AM
From: Baldwin	Respond to of 5853

George, What's your opinion on this third (i think) round of rumors on CIEN buyout? I saw that CEO Nettles is due to speak at a conference on Wedsnesday (Nov. 4), and rumors floating on everything from buyout to announcements of new contract(s) with Baby Bell(s). In someways, I believe Mike Birck's words on CNBC (link given on earlier post here) were twisted by wishful thinkers because I see CIEN still as "hot potato" subject to swings on good or bad news & rumors.

To: George Gilder who wrote (793)	11/2/1998 7:12:00 PM
From: 2brasil	Respond to of 5853

George thanKS for your report I bought Ciena at 13 5/8 and sold 1/3 of my Tellabs. anyway what you think of This claim Motorola's hot wireless TV plan By Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, ZDNet Motorola Inc. is about to bring out of its laboratories a technology in development for five years that allows lifelike interactive television signals to be sent and received wirelessly and instantaneously. Motorola believes it is "years ahead of anyone else" in exploiting parts of the radio spectrum that would allow delivery of interactive television services wirelessly. According to Rudyard Istvan, the company's corporate director of strategy, the technology can operate in nearly any slice of spectrum ranging from 5 billion to 60 billion cycles, or hertz, per second. At present, Motorola appears to be focusing on what Istvan calls a "very, very interesting band" of spectrum that lies just below 60 gigahertz. The company envisions selling huge volumes of small antennae - possibly the size of thermostats - that would be scattered across corporate campuses, public places and streets roughly 15 feet apart, as well as microchips to handle signals and process video. Istvan said Motorola would propose its architecture for this system, which it calls Piano, as an industry standard for delivering high-speed wireless data among personal computers, servers, personal digital assistants, notebook PCs and other digital devices. Using Piano as a standard is being proposed to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, a consortium of wireless communications and computing companies founded in May by IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Nokia Corp., Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson and Toshiba Corp. While Motorola has not publicly discussed the Piano architecture, the company said it considers the technology to be ready to roll out. "We wouldn't be proposing it [as a standard] if we didn't feel we could implement it now," Istvan said. If adopted, the impact "could be quite large" on data networks, Istvan said. He expects Piano first to extend the use of company networks to the exchange on an instant's notice of video and other multimedia data. Making that possible will be a set of low-cost chips, likely to cost less than $100, that will handle the wireless signals being sent and received from computing and communications devices to the microcell antennae. Also critical to Motorola's plans are new generations of its Merlin digital signal processing chips, which the company expects to have operating at 1 billion cycles per second next year. At that speed, Istvan said, the Merlin chips will be able to compress and decompress motion-picture-quality video without delay, allowing live videoconferences and other video communications to be conducted on a wireless network. The creation of room-sized cells is necessary for the wireless distribution of video if radio waves in or near the 60-GHz band are used because of the characteristics of higher frequencies on the radio spectrum, said Shea Silidker, consultant in the personal communications unit of The Strategis Group Inc. in Washington, D.C. The higher the frequency, the lower the range of signals. To date, most efforts at delivering high-speed data wirelessly have been in the 28-GHz to 38-GHz area. This is uncharted territory. But Motorola has been a pioneer of cellular telephone service, and the Piano architecture is "philosophically" - although not technically - similar to Motorola's efforts to launch satellite networks that can deliver telephone calls, television programming and Internet data. Its Iridium phone network is entering commercial service now; and, the Teledesic LLC network - an Internet in the sky - is set to start up in 2003. Ubiquity for the Piano architecture, though, would mean millions of cells in any major market. But just because the company can begin to deliver the technology and expects it to find acceptance first on corporate networks doesn't ensure its success, said Jane Zweig, executive vice president of Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd., a wireless consulting firm. "This is really its first effort in this arena," Zweig said. The corporate data network "is going to be a fierce battleground for Motorola." Other wireless players like Ericsson gear providers, such as Lucent Technologies Inc. and Northern Telecom Ltd., also will zero in on providing high-speed wireless networking technology and wired data networks. See Also: Get help for your computer problems at the Help! Channel Read hot news at ZDNN Work from home? Get good advice from the Small Business Advisor Index \| Top Stories \| Business \| Tech \| Politics \| World \| Local \| Entertainment \| Sports \| Science \| Health Questions or Comments Copyright © 1998 ZDNet. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of ZDNet is prohibited. ZDNet and the ZDNet logo are trademarks of Ziff-Davis P

To: George Gilder who wrote (793)	11/3/1998 1:35:00 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

Can you offer any comments on the viability of this technology? In its technology demo, Silk Road will transmit 144 distinct TV programming signals from a video wall with 144 monitors to a second video wall through a strand of fiber optic cable at 93 gigabits per second. Silk Road's technology simultaneously carries voice, video and data signals over long distances on the backs of photons in a bidirectional laser beam that does not have to be replicated or amplified. Company executives said their photonics solution can be scaled from a network backbone down to a local area network. Silk Road plans to introduce its first transmitter and receiver products early next year. Silk Road (formerly SynComm Inc.) is promoting its photonics-based technology as an alternative to dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), a transmission technology that provides wide bandwidth across networks. Unlike WDM, which uses multiple wavelengths that must be reconditioned to eliminate crosstalk, Silk Road said its single-wavelength solution presents no chance for crosstalk or signal interruption. eet.com

To: George Gilder who wrote (793)	11/3/1998 7:25:00 PM
From: GerryMiles	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

George:How aware is Gates of "The Embassy Chip"eom.

To: George Gilder who wrote (793)	11/5/1998 11:22:00 AM
From: mmeggs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

Re: Microsoft and Qualcomm joint venture I'm know you get a lot of "What do you think of..." type questions. But what do you think of this joint venture? Details are few at this point, but it is clear there will be some major collaboration between the two companies, most certainly using CDMA and Windows CE. AirTouch and AT&T Wireless are reportedly waiting in the wings to promote and endorse the JV. Given your enthusiasm for Java, the pdQ, CDMA, Globalstar, WLL, and the like, how does this "deal with the devil" impact some of these things? Appreciate your thoughts very much. mmeggs