Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Rande Is . . . HOME -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rande Is who wrote (3885)	2/26/1999 11:19:00 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Rande, as far as I can tell it's only on Newsbytes so far, not on PRNewswire or Business Wire or DJN. Here it is: Internet Over Broadband Wireless Demo From ART Newsbytes - February 26, 1999 10:44 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1999 FEB 26 (NB) -- By Steve Gold, Newsbytes. Advanced Radio Telecom [NASDAQ:ARTT] (ART) has partnered with Lucent Technologies [NYSE:LU] to demonstrated the delivery of Internet services over a broadband wireless infrastructure. The demonstration is something of a milestone in the Internet industry, Newsbytes notes, because, while broadband or wireless Internet access on their own are nothing to shout about, linking the two together is a major breakthrough. The demo was given earlier this week by Henry C Hirsch, ART's chief executive officer (CEO), at the Broadband Wireless Forum in San Francisco. He told delegates that, in order to stay competitive, businesses today require and are demanding a high-speed, high-capacity -- or broadband -- connection between their powerful Intranets, PCs and the Internet. "ART is meeting customers' demands by bridging that first mile at speeds from 64 kilobits per second (Kbps) to 10 megabits per second (Mbps), while providing a single source for all their Internet service needs," he said. According to Hirsch, the company is currently using point-to-point fixed wireless technology to deliver broadband Internet services including e-mail and Web hosting to businesses in the Seattle, Phoenix, and Portland metropolitan areas. Thanks to its agreement with Spieker Properties, and other property management companies, he said, ART has installed broadband radio facilities on numerous office buildings in those cities linking tenant businesses with its state-of-the-art IP/ATM (Internet Protocol/asynchronous transfer mode) backbone network. "It's been said many times before that, of the approximately 750,000 office buildings in this country, less than five percent are directly connected to a fiber network," he noted. "That leaves an enormous number of businesses -- especially the small and mid-sized entities -- whose productivity, competitiveness, and overall value can be positively impacted with broadband fixed wireless-based services," he said. ART's Web site is at art-net.net . Reported by Newsbytes News Network, newsbytes.com .