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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (3001)	3/3/1999 7:31:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Seattle Times - March 3, 1999 "Start-up offers condo dwellers fast Net Service" seattletimes.com Today, ReFlex and Pleasant Hill, Calif., based-Tut Systems were formally announcing availability of the "big fat pipe" service that ReFlex has been pitching to a limited number of Seattle condo dwellers for weeks: high-speed Internet access priced to compete with the digital subscriber line (DSL) service that both US West and GTE rolled out in Western Washington last year. Like DSL, the service provides fast Internet speeds - up to 15 times faster than conventional dial-up accounts - over standard telephone lines. Unlike DSL, the ReFlex-Tut path to the Internet does not travel through the telephone company's central office. Instead, after being plugged into a wall jack, the ReFlex customer's phone line leads to a black box somewhere in the building - the basement or a central communications room. From there, data moves to and from a small microwave dish atop the building, and then beams less than two miles to one of six fiber-optic hubs ReFlex maintains in the Seattle area. With ReFlex in charge of the network side, Tut delivers the plumbing that allows ReFlex's broad bandwidth to get distributed throughout buildings - without having to tear through walls to lay new wire or drag fiber-optic cable to the building. Ken