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To: WTC who wrote (2937)	2/25/1999 12:39:00 AM
From: Bernard Levy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Hi WTC: I generally agree with your discussion of the difficulties of broadband wireless residential deployment. I think however, that it might still work, with very low power repeaters, and some sort of overlay wireless architecture (in essence, cells within cells). Peter Ecclestine might want to comment about the smart antenna engineers getting together with millimeter wave engineers, since he pointed out several months ago when Clarity Wireless was bought by Cisco that its smart antenna techniques extended far beyond the 2-5Ghz range for which I thought they would apply all the way up to the > 20 Ghz range (buth with some severe limitations). In any case, if the reports that AT&T intends to deploy its project Angel at 38GHz with a cost of < $800 per household are true, they must think they have solved the problem. The last description of their system I saw a few months ago did not sound too promising, since they were speaking of placing transmitters on top of telephone poles, or similar high objects. Best regards, Bernard Levy