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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (39)	11/13/1998 11:18:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 626

Will do. So far the only feedback has been negative, but unfounded as you will see in your review. The private responses have also been negative. They prefer to attack me since I have little knowledge about photonics . That should be clear from my crude attempts to back engineer SR. The opponents don't look at the apparent developments and see how they could be true. This is hallmark of narrow mindedness. To claim that someone's demo was fraudulent because you can't see it, is far worse than trying to see it and failing. The trick with success is to assert the truth of an apparent falsity and then find how false can actually be true. Specifically, the demo of 11/3 seemingly accomplished what no DWDM setup anywhere can do. The company claims that costs are of an order less and the SR system is retrofitable. If you had a specious device, would you generate sufficient press such that people like you and I would know? There is no technically unimaginable achievement here, it is just engineeringly innovative. The company's reticence makes a great deal of sense. The right way to achieve business success is to just start selling your device and let the market discover the details. If you aren't a Lucent or NT, the attitude is that you can't have a viable product. Without the big name sponsorship the world will beat a path away from your door because the "risk takers" as they like to call themselves, prefer to let others take the risk so that they can either imitate or steal the success. This is also pervasive attitude among the big science institutions in terms of ego capital. If something isn't discovered there, it isn't true. Both aspects are part of our authority driven society. The reaction indicates that this technique of SR may have extraordinary potential. If Templex is on the same discovery path, then I would say that there are some serious issues developing here for the entrenched networkers. I don't just mean for companies like CIEN. I mean the entire ethernet oriented establishment. DWDMIP has already threatened it vaguely with Pure. If the cost and capability of Pure is suddenly and substantially improved, ethernet will no longer make sense. I sense that is exactly what is going to happen.

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (39)	11/13/1998 11:37:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 626

Here's the first tidbits from Templex' orientation of 2 years ago. It isn't SR, but it is Pure and it may be symbiotic to SR: Templex Technology markets four-dimensional holographic process to router,switching, memory subsystem and storage vendors by Michelle Douglass CDN Staff Eugene, OR-based Templex Technology Corp. has developed a faster way for corporations to send and receive data within the world's existing electronic infrastructure. After 15 years of development, the company is pushing a new generation of optical technology that offers transmission speeds and switching rates more than 1,000 times(what is offered by) electronics, says Bob Spina, vice-president of engineering at Templex. He adds electronic backplanes may change to optical backplanes if corporations widely adopt this new generation of optical technology, called temporally accessed spectral multiplexing (TASM). We're trying to get to the market window to provide this increase in performance in existing systems, says Spina. The company is presently working with Intel, some off-shore memory manufacturers and a variety of other vendors that produce data networking routers, central office switching equipment, memory subsystems, storage and hierarchical storage systems.Products on the market today may be enhanced with Templex's technology if vendors adopt TASM, says Spina. Right now, Spina says commercialized product may be available by the end of 1998. Templex will promote TASM, but not manufacture any TASM products, says Spina.We're not going to compete with Quantum or the 3Com's of the day. We're attempting to work with them we're the technology provider. Spina says channel distribution for optical products will stay the same as vendors will have no reason to change. He adds systems expertise is required to help bring out optical products to work in a number of applications. The channel is going to be on the OEM side and the reseller side, depending on where the products are actually derived. Solutions will fit into high performance transaction processing systems, which are necessary for customer service and credit card centres. TASM may enable memory storage of 10,000 or more bits of information at each spatial location, transfer rates in the gigabit per second range, latency (seek) times measured in microseconds, and optical data switching/routing devices to process and control gigabit to terabit per second optical data streams for communications. Data may also be transmitted through optical TASM devices in the terabit per second range, which Templex estimates is 1,000 times faster than ATM. In Canada, Spina expects Nortel to research Templex's technology for its data transmission and switching development. You've got to think of all the fibre laid in the ground around Canada and the U.S. Electronically, you are limited to transmission speeds for voice and data over that infrastructure. What we're talking about is building an infrastructure and the interfaces to give us optical systems versus electronic systems. We still have an interface, for example, but we get a piece of data, put it into our optical memory and put it through our router or switching. We now can achieve greater bandwidth of transmission of the existing infrastructure. The point is, we can enhance it and allow it to reach its greater potential.