From: Ken Meyering (ken@define.com)
Date: Sun Dec 13 1998 - 13:08:14 MST
I was reading about your 52 Mbs over copper DSL solution.
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/news/1998/98102.htm
Do you know when 20,000 foot DSL will be available? I'm in the
USWEST service area, 15,600 foot from the wire center, so I can't
take advantage of their $40/month unlimited full time connection
deal!
http://www.interprise.com/dsl/promo.html
P.S. I heard you guys have superscalar ram fabs that might be
declassified soon. Any truth to that?
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Subject: Dirt Cheap Line of Site Gigabit Laser Heads
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Do you have inexpensive laser heads that could be adapted to through
the
air terrestrial communication systems?
I'm particularly interested in secure point-to-point broadband for
wireless solid state (UNIX) proxies for stereo wavelet hdtv over the
internet. Something like the black boxes mentioned in this article:
http://eetimes.com/story/OEG19981007S0014
Perhaps roof mounted, with superscalar ram wafers adapted for use as
multi-gigabyte or terabyte ramdisks emulating SCSI hard drives in
shareware Linux proxies. Possibly we could use small 3D
micropositioning systems aim lasers between black boxes: maybe five
or six such small ball-in-socket orbit joints to connect the rooftop
communication nodes into a mesh or webwork of nodes?
I suspect that given the popular demand for high bandwidth, and the
home electronics industry's willingness to mass produce HDTV flat
panels for a low price, the DOD and DARPA will soon let go of
previously classified RAM fabs (technology that was once necessary
for storing terrain maps in cruise missiles [which now use simpler
GPS chip technology]).
It's my understanding that terrestrial laser heads used in
conjunction with solid state video proxies would enable rapid upgrade to
ubiquitous broadband, enabling secure point-to-point or point-to-
multipoint hdtv (uncompressed), or wavelet compressed for entertainment
and education applications.
I'm interested in using nonlinear hdtv (frame level access to feature
films) for a visual dictionary and online discussion forums that self
assemble according to psychometric criteria.
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ken@define.com
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