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To: Daniel Hsu who wrote (1012)	3/4/1999 10:46:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6531

Daniel, you are correct. Now think about adding all that mpeg video, audio, IP, etc in one nice package? Read up on Divicom, you don't have their name right...so I doubt you know them well enough. They know 2-way is key. Tomorrow we'll find another player in broadband to talk about.

To: Daniel Hsu who wrote (1012)	3/4/1999 11:22:00 PM
From: Bahama	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6531

Hi Daniel, now don't take this wrong, but the following statement: "as an engineer in communication R&D area, BRCM has best modulation/demodulation technology, which can provide relatively reliable two-way communication over the cable or any other media" is really meaningless. "Best" is a vapor term--best in what way? "Relatively reliable"...what does that mean? Are you sure you aren't in marketing?<g> It's actually EQUAL in every way because it's based on an industry-wide specification. Everyone implements the same modulation scheme and the same demodulation scheme. Everyone implements the same FEC. They're all tested to the same specifications. Cable plant is designed with those specifications in mind. Merely using Broadcom's chips doesn't guarantee compliance with the specifications, as evidenced by today's press release by CableLabs. Only 2 vendors out of 9 passed. Thomson using Broadcom and Toshiba using Libit's chips (there's that pesky Libit again!). Several of the vendors that didn't pass are using Broadcom's chips. That shouldn't reflect on Broadcom because it's the hard design that's flawed--the chip itself is obviously capable of passing. As for your statement: " while Digicom and Cube has MPEG or digital video/audio technology which is mainly for one-way communication." You really don't understand these devices at all, do you? You shouldn't make such high claims about your knowledge--or it must be in a TOTALLY unrelated part of communications, in which case you shouldn't IMPLY your expertise. Those are COMPLETELY separate parts of the signal path. They are INDEPENDENT. There is absolutely no reason for that part of the signal path to be two-way, yet that part of the signal path will exist in every digital set top box. It has nothing at all to do with the modem design.