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?
From: Self <Single-user mode> To: webmaster@lucent.com Subject: Dirt Cheap Line of Site Gigabit Laser Heads Copies to: extropians@extropy.org Send reply to: geek@ifeden.com Date sent: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 03:10:25 +0800
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.