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Superfast DSL Could Take Broadband Market by Storm
SHDSL standard promises data transfers up to 4.6 mbps, but may not be available in the U.S. for some time.
Dennis O'Reilly, PCWorld.com
Monday, April 23, 2001
The logjam at the high end of DSL services seems about to break--at least in Europe--with the arrival of Symmetrical High-Density Digital Subscriber Line technology, which promises whopping transmission speeds of up to 4.6 megabits per second for both uploads and downloads.
And unlike the current high-speed, two-way DSL technology, SDSL, SHDSL is interoperable with the existing network infrastructure. Efficient Networks and other DSL equipment makers see SHDSL as the perfect business complement to Asynchronous DSL in the home market, which offers fast downstream but slow upstream. For businesses, SHDSL provides the bidirectional high-speed transfers that video, voice, and other high-bandwidth applications require.
High Speed at Wide Range
SHDSL is also able to reach 20,000 feet from central-office switches, and repeaters can extend that to a theoretical limit of 19 miles, says Shaheen Kazi, director of product marketing at Efficient Networks. Because the repeaters amplify the signal, there is no degradation, and in fact the signal is improved, Kazi adds.
Efficient's $599 5950 SHDSL Business Gateway, which will be available when the first SHDSL services roll out in Europe this summer, is targeted at small and midsize businesses, as well as at enterprise branch offices and remote workers. It features a wire-speed virtual private network and firewall for business-class security, as well as the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol and dial backup to guarantee high availability. The device's intelligent 10/100 ethernet 8-port switch automatically detects full- or half-duplex operation and regular or crossover cable.
Besides working with existing networks, the new SHDSL standard also conforms to International Telecommunications Union G.991.2 Recommendations and uses the same data encoding and signal modulation techniques as the ANSI-backed HDSL-2 standard.
SHDSL is expected to catch on faster in Europe than in the United States because of Europe's slow adoption of SDSL. Nevertheless, Efficient Networks expects SHDSL services to become available on this side of the Atlantic by the second quarter of 2002.
Excel - Greg
BT, AT&T mull global telecom firm-report (T, BTY, UK:BTA) By Allen Wan
British Telecommunications [uk: bta] (BTY) and AT&T (T) are considering whether to form a separately listed global-telecom company that would include their Concert joint venture and other business-related telecom services run by each company, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The idea of combining these units or even selling BT's stake in Concert are among several options laid out in a prospectus to be distributed to BT shareholders this week ahead of a 5.9 billion pounds rights issue, the sources said. Besides Concert, any new company formed might include Ignite -- BT's UK and continental Europe business telecom service -- and AT&T's business telecom operation, they said. Under this scenario, the value of the merged units could go as high as $100 billion depending on what units are included, the sources said, adding that the new company could be listed in New York, London or both. A BT spokesman told the Journal that the idea of a separately listed company is one of many options being considered and no final decision has been made. AT&T couldn't be immediately reached for comment.
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34Simmonds. That is a good question. Somebody could probably give you a better answer then me. But I would have to think with Time Warner and their movies they would need a way to get them to the home. Well how else are they going to do it but to change to DSL. So can they make the move to DSL and keep their numbers and growth? I think they can. After they see NWs distance and speed they could sign up enough people to do it.
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SS-man. I asked John Howell basicly the same thing. And he has stated to me as well as others over the phone and in email the name situation won't stop NV from releasing significant news. So that is the info I have. Yes I know it's frustrating. I have my good days and bad. But I have to remind myself what we can't see doesn't mean it isn't there happening. When I look at the players and their connections like Ivan and Beck I have to grin. They didn't come here because it won't happen. They knew when they put their name in the NV pot it will happen.
We are..........................................Close!
Excel - Greg
Thanks goes to Hailgator for letting us know about this article about Quest upgrading their DSL.
BUSINESS NOTEBOOK: QWEST MOVES TO PROVIDE EXPANDED DSL SERVICE
Saturday, May 12, 2001
MIKE ROGOWAY, Columbian staff writer
One of the primary limitations of high-speed DSL Internet service is that it's only available in areas close to a phone company's central office generally within about 3.4 miles.
DSL creates fast Internet connections on existing copper phone lines, but the service degrades quickly over distance.
As a result, high-speed DSL is unavailable in much of Clark County -- including Vancouver Heights, Cascade Park and Fisher's Landing.
Compare that with high-speed cable Internet service from AT&T Broadband, which is available almost everywhere in AT&T's cable television service area.
But Clark County's DSL woes may be easing. Qwest Communications, the local phone company for nearly all of Clark County, is upgrading its DSL infrastructure to significantly expand the areas served by high-speed DSL.
"We are generally turning up DSL so more people can get it," said Michael Dunne, a Qwest spokesman in Seattle. The improvement involves a technological upgrade, Dunne said, to extend DSL's reach.
"That's going to change the DSL scene dramatically," said Doug Palin of Pacifier Online, a major Clark County Internet service provider.
Qwest provides DSL directly to many Clark County customers, but Pacifier and other companies also use Qwest's DSL infrastructure to support their own service.
The scope of Qwest's local DSL expansion won't be disclosed for a couple more weeks, but Palin expects it will be significant.
"A lot of people who couldn't get it before are going to be able to get it pretty quick," he said.
DSL monthly rates are typically in the $30 to $50 range. Installation charges and modem prices add to the expense, but DSL rates are comparable to the $45.95 AT&T charges monthly for its cable Internet service.
Avoiding collapse
While Qwest expands its DSL presence, other DSL providers are collapsing.
That has disrupted service and caused headaches for many DSL users, but Pacifier's Palin said most DSL customers in Clark County needn't worry.
When DSL provider NorthPoint Communications went bankrupt and halted service earlier this year, Palin said it caused "heartburn" in many areas where local ISPs relied on NorthPoint's DSL infrastructure.
In Clark County, however, Palin said, Pacifier didn't use NorthPoint.
Now another big DSL provider, Covad Communications, is in financial trouble and may follow NorthPoint down the tubes. But Palin said that only about 10 percent of Pacifier's 1,000 DSL customers in Clark County are using DSL supplied by Covad.
For that 10 percent, Palin said, Pacifier is working to make sure Covad's problems don't become their problems.
"We are actively looking for a replacement solution for them."
Meanwhile, Vancouver's homegrown DSL company appears to be out of the woods.
New Edge Networks announced $77 million in new financing last month, which New Edge says will "fully fund" its business plan.
Mike Rogoway reports business news for The Columbian. Reach him at 360-759-8018. Send e-mail to mike.rogoway@columbian.com.
Excel - Greg
In the article below you will see some of the reasons people will go nuts over having our technology.
HDTV installation can be a real turnoff
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Knight Ridder Newspapers
LOS ANGELES - To see high-definition television is to want HDTV. It is more eye-catching than Jennifer Lopez's neckline, more breathtaking than Yosemite's El Capitan and crisper than the white slopes of Tahoe against a blue sky.
I've wanted one ever since that day, three years ago, when I noticed what looked like a bubbling fish tank in the middle of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. At first, I was perplexed. Tropical fish instead of spokes-models in fishnet? That's so wrong.
Only upon closer inspection did I realize I was staring at a television monitor. I've been hooked ever since, but the $10,000 price tag made HDTV a luxury item.
Recent drops in price make digital television affordable as the centerpiece of our home theater system. Prices range from a high of about $29,000 for a 64-inch Plasma display - those flat-screen, gas-filled monitors that produce an image truly suitable for framing - to $1,000 for the 27-inch digital color monitor. And with Princeton Technologies offering its new 36-inch direct-view monitor on loan, I thought: Hey, why not?
Silly, naive me.
As I compose these words, I'm entering Day 3 of what I'll delicately refer to as "HDTV hell." It's not the installer's fault. AudioVisions is a professional outfit that has designed award-winning home theater systems that cost more than my house. These guys are pros.
What we're dealing with here is a technology that's not yet ready for prime time.
The installation took 21 hours, three external antennas - including a 1960s clothesline throwback that's bound to violate at least 10 sections of our homeowners-association rules - and one rewiring of all the components to coax the Princeton monitor to communicate with Princeton's own HDTV receiver.
The payoff: five digital-television stations, out of 40 transmitting digital signals from Mount Wilson north of Los Angeles. Only one -- the PBS affiliate, KCET - broadcast programming in the hyper-lush, see-the-dew-on-the-rose-petals HDTV. The rest looked like anything you'd see with a satellite dish.
The whole experience brought me back to the 1960s transition from black-and-white to color television. Big, ugly rooftop antennas. Limited programming.
Day 1: I was set up
Years of successfully connecting various devices to televisions - VCRs, game consoles, digital-video-disc players and camcorders - lulled me into a false sense of security about the ease of connecting an HDTV. That is why I permitted two marketing guys - one representing monitor maker Princeton Technologies, the other, Ultralink Products - to hook up my new HDTV.
I realized I had misjudged the situation when these two guys, breathing heavily, dropped the 300-pound TV monitor into my entertainment center, carving a gouge across the surface of the custom-made cabinet.
The next five hours confirmed my fears, as the two men puzzled over hooking up the five Miller & Kreisel speakers to the Yamaha RX V3000 audio tuner - and its 66 audio and video inputs and outputs - to the Princeton monitor and the HDTV tuner. All without benefit of the installation manual.
When they had concluded their handiwork, the speakers would play theater-quality audio - whether or not the television was on. And the high-definition part of the HDTV - the whole reason for installing the set - did not work at all.
Lesson 1: Connecting a high-definition television is no task for the Home Depot amateur crowd. This requires a professional.
Day 2: Get help
You've known guys like Bruce Champion since high school. They're the ones who ran the movie projectors. Champion is a professional installer called in to solve this mess. It takes all day.
He climbs onto the roof to install a special Terk digital-TV antenna. It looks nothing like the rooftop antennas of yesteryear, with their spindly metal branches. This is sleek and aerodynamic - like a modern version of the airplane propeller. And it comes with its own power source.
Champion attaches the antenna to the receiver and, after some modest tweaking, manages to coax a high-definition picture from the monitor. It's the vivid, nearly three-dimensional picture I expect - with one significant defect.
It's green - all green.
Champion is much too polite to curse. He merely shakes his head and begins rewiring all the components. By dinnertime, he has the television working harmoniously with the receiver, the speakers and the antenna.
We scan the airwaves for digital-television signals. Although Champion had installed an identical antenna at home less than a mile away to stunning results, I was less fortunate. We found only a single digital channel: the CBS affiliate.
Shall we say I'm no fan of "Touched by an Angel"?
Day 3: tuning in
Champion arrives the next day with a new Winegard antenna that never makes it to the rooftop. We notice the box says it's "digital ready" - a frustrating misnomer. Suffice to say: It won't be ready to receive digital signals anytime soon.
Champion returns with a descendant of those big aluminum antennas from the 1960s. It's from RCA. It costs a mere $40. It works, tuning in five digital channels: the NBC and ABC affiliates, PBS and two Spanish channels showing dubbed black-and-white classics.
Champion programs the Princeton remote control, which is about as intuitive as a set of assembly instructions from Ikea. He offers me a quick tutorial and leaves his home phone number in the event of further technical difficulties.
The finale
Neighbors and friends start showing up to see high-definition television. I expected the same kind of awestruck reaction I had when I saw the aquarium at the consumer-electronics trade show.
I was disappointed.
"I guess you really have to be into TV," said one neighbor, who said he couldn't see much improvement over cable television.
There's a simple explanation for this obvious lack of enthusiasm: scant high-definition programming.
Both NBC's and ABC's broadcasts appear to be the same signal, converted for digital transmission. The subtle differences in clarity and color sharpness were noticeable only when I switched between digital channels and cable television to point out the contrast.
Conversely, the problems with the digital signal were glaringly obvious. When I tuned in ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," the on-screen picture trailed the sound, like some Godzilla-inspired English-language dub. Changing channels caused the picture to momentarily fracture into pixels, as if to deliberately scramble the actors' true identities.
Often, the video would freeze for no apparent reason.
Only PBS afforded a glimpse of television's digital future. Late at night, KCET broadcast high-definition still-life portraits of fields of flowers that were so vivid and rich in detail, I could see dew hanging on the daffodils and peer through the fragile, translucent wings of an insect perched on a bud.
My 9-year-old son, Alex, looked up from his Calvin & Hobbes book long enough to remark, "Mom. That's beautiful."
If only it were all that good.
Copyright © 2001 The Seattle Times Company
Excel - Greg
34Simmonds. I talked to John on Friday. He felt we are on track to have our shareholder meeting next month at the end of the month. The name is currently at the sec for approval. Once that has taken place they will immediatly go to the printers and we will know the name.
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DSL company list for Europe.
Atlantic Telecom Group plc
Belgacom SA
COLT Telecom Group plc
CyberCity ApS
Deutsche Telekom AG
Easynet Group plc
EINSTEINet AG
Elisa Communications Corp (formerly Helsinki Telephone Corp (HTC))
Energis plc (Fixed Telecoms Operations)
Fibernet Group plc
FirstMark Communications Europe SA
Global TeleSystems Group Inc (GTS)
HighwayOne GmbH
Jazz Telecom SA (Jazztel)
Kingston Communications (HULL) plc (KCH)
KPNQwest
Mannesmann Arcor AG & Co.
Primus Telecommunications Group Inc.
QS Communications (QSC) AG
Redstone Telecom plc
RSL Communications Ltd (European Operations) (formerly RSLCOM Europe Ltd)
Sonera Oyj (fomerly Telecom Finland)
Swisscom AG
Tele1 Europe
Telefonica SA
Telia AB
Thus (formerly Scottish Telecom)
VersaPoint
Viatel Inc. (European Operations)
XO Communications (European Division) (formerly Concentric Network Europe)
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Jared. Very interesting. I sure am looking forward to it. Let the Bull Run!
PS.
Ken. I know what that is. The Prayer Of Jabez! Thanks!
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A FATHER'S LOVE LETTER
You may not know me, but I know everything about you ... Psalm 139:1
I know when you sit down and when you rise up ... Psalm 139:2
I am familiar with all your ways... Psalm 139:3
Even the very hairs on your head are numbered... Matthew 10:29-31
For you were made in my image... Genesis 1:27
In me you live and move and have your being... Acts 17:28
For you are my offspring... Acts 17:28
I knew you even before you were conceived... Jeremiah 1:4-5
I chose you when I planned creation... Ephesians 1:11-12
You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book... Psalm 139:15-16
I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live..Acts 17:26
You are fearfully and wonderfully made... Psalm 139:14
I knit you together in your mother's womb... Psalm 139:13
And brought you forth on the day you were born... Psalm 71:6
I have been misrepresented by those who don't know me... John 8:41-44
I am not distant and angry, but am the complete expression of love... 1 John 4:16
And it is my desire to lavish my love on you simply because you are my child and I am your father... 1 John 3:1
I offer you more than your earthly father ever could... Matthew 7:11
For I am the perfect father... Matthew 5:48
Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand... James 1:17
For I am your provider and I meet all your needs... Matthew 6:31-33
My plan for your future has always been filled with hope... Jeremiah 29:11
Because I love you with an everlasting love... Jeremiah 31:3
My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore... Psalm 139:17-18
And I rejoice over you with singing... Zephaniah 3:17
I will never stop doing good to you... Jeremiah 32:40
For you are my treasured possession... Exodus 19:5
I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul... Jeremiah 32:41
And I want to show you great and marvelous things... Jeremiah 33:3
If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me... Deuteronomy 4:29
Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart... Psalm 37:4
For it is I who gave you those desires... Philippians 2:13
I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine... Ephesians 3:20
For I am your greatest encourager... 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles... 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you... Psalm 34:18
As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart... Isaiah 40:11
One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes and will take away all the
pain you have suffered on this earth... Revelation 21:3-4
I am your Father, and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus... John 17:23
For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed.... John 17:26
He is the exact representation of my being... Hebrews 1:3
He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you... Romans 8:31
And to tell you that I am not counting your sins... 2 Corinthians 5:18-19
Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled..2 Corinthians 5:18-19
His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you... 1 John 4:10
I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love... Romans 8:31-32
If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me... 1 John 2:23
And nothing will ever separate you from my love again...Romans 8:38-39
Come home and I'll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen... Luke 15:7
I have always been Father, and will always be Father... Ephesians 3:14-15
My question is...Will you be my child? ... John 1:12-13
I am waiting for you... Luke 15:11-32
Father's Love Letter Compiled by Barry Adams Copyright 1999
Visit The Interactive Website at www.FathersLoveLetter.com
Excel - Greg
Don't know if this one has already been posted. Anyone able to transform this into english?
Teknologi VDSL ( 8 Mar The Reg)
Sebuah perusahaan US kecil telah sukses menguji broadband ultra-fast. NWT-New Wheel Tech telah mendemonstrasikan prototipe CU@OCX yang dapat mengirim undirectional transmisi sampai 54MBps melalui cable telephone sepanjang 2.8KM. VDSL (Very High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line) akan meningkatkan batasan dari jangkauan dengan broadband. Sebelumnya, perusahaan Broadcom juga mencatat rekor untuk broadband tetapi hanya menjangkau 1/3 dari kemampuan NWT. Dengan single Twisted pair, kemampuan downstream mencapai 13 - 52MBps dan upstream antara 1.5 - 2.3Mbps. VDSL sebelumnya beroperasi antara 0.3 - 1.2KM dan terhitung lebih muda umurnya dari pemakaian ADSL.
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NT. I agree. Also noticed they said due to competition and strategic strategies they wouldn't name the players. I did some research last night and discovered the quest partnership as well. Interesting. During that I noticed some other companies with NV at the end of their name. Do you happen to know what that stands for? I would think it might be like Inc is here?
Excel - Greg
Dutch Testing Interactive TV Over DSL
Monday May 7 7:14 AM ET
Dutch Testing Interactive TV Over DSL
By Jana Sanchez
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch group KPN Telecom NV said on Monday it was testing technology that would allow it to offer interactive TV, video on demand (VoD) and games to consumers along with its high-speed Internet service.
If the entertainment services get the go-ahead, they could bolster the company's domestic fixed-line revenues and offer competition to similar services being launched by the Netherlands' largest cable company, United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC).
``KPN is engaged in trials to see how the technology for interactive TV and VoD could be combined with their DSL (digital subscriber line) services... The stuff works. It's just up to them when to roll it out,'' an industry source said.
Although KPN spokesman Michel Hueber confirmed the entertainment trials, for strategic reasons he said he was not prepared to release further details yet.
The former telecoms monopoly would need a commercial broadcast license to offer the services, but there was no reason why such a license would be withheld, said Leonard van der Meulen, a commissioner at the Dutch media regulator Commissariaat voor de Media. The most optimistic voices -- the vendors who stand to gain if telecoms companies roll out these services -- say most telcos would have to compete quickly with the entertainment offerings from rival cable and satellite services, or risk losing even more of their domestic Internet and voice telephony revenues.
``We have been talking to every major telco in Europe... I think you will start to see all the major telcos offering these services as early as the end of the year,'' said Stephen Turnbull, regional general manager for the home networking group of Motorola, the largest maker of set-top digital TV devices.
Timing, Costs Are Issues
European telcos are plagued with debt, and would have to dig deep to come up with the money needed to roll out the services, analysts and industry sources said.
``Most telcos are going through a difficult phase and trying now to figure out what can be done over DSL,'' said Stuart Collingwood, vice president of Liberate Technologies.
Cost estimates for KPN to roll out such services on its network run as high as almost one billion euros.
The set-top box costs about $500 -- a high unit price due to the small number being produced. Network upgrades could require funds which KPN might have trouble finding.
KPN is burdened with 21.9 billion euros of debt after the acquisition of German mobile carrier E-Plus and the purchases or interests in four third-generation (3G) mobile phone licenses.
One way to cut costs would be for KPN to ask consumers and vendors help foot the bill for the rollout, said Turnbull.
``They are going to have to look at creative ways to finance this... they need to deliver these services, and people will pay for these services,'' Motorola's Turnbull said.
Even then, the challenge is to demonstrate that these services can be profitable.
``They cannot get the cost model to work in many instances. The boxes are expensive, the upgrades are expensive and most of them are paralyzed by their 3G debt and collapsing share prices,'' said Liberate's Collingwood.
KPN is unlikely to charge more for the services than UPC would do. Analysts estimate a typical Dutch family could spend between 50 and 120 euros per month on interactive TV and VoD.
The Technology Works
The software and hardware to offer interactive TV via a set-top box or so-called home gateway is already in use in the U.S., Canada and Britain.
Motorola, Pace Micro, Philips Electronics and Nokia (news - web sites) all produce a set-top box for delivering interactive TV via a telephone network.
Companies that make interactive TV software, mainly used on cable and satellite networks, say they can easily transfer their software to a telecoms network. Those companies include OpenTV, Liberate and Microsoft.
There are also smaller companies that make software exclusively for telco uses, including Canada's iMagicTV, whose software is being used by Britain's Kingston Telecommunication Group and being tested by Norway's Telenor.
Excel - Greg
I decided to send my post to John and get his thoughts regarding BER rate. This is the results below. Hope this helps us understand this better.
Greg,
Attached is the response I got from Al and Mike regarding BERT results.
This is valid information that can be published.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: EXCELGREG@cs.com [mailto:EXCELGREG@cs.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 7:44 AM
To: jhowell@newvisual.com
Subject: NVEI
Hi John,
I posted this on I-hub board. Does this make sense? Am I understanding this
correctly?
There has been alot of talk lately about BER rate. If I understand our
technology correctly there is no way for them to release a BER rate. Why?
Because the tech is a speed and distance driver of different applications of
technology. Lets take companies abc tech as an example. They see our tech
work. After deciding this is something that would definetly enhance what
they
have then the process begins. Their engineers meet with our engineers and
apply our tech to theirs. At that time after tweaking and testing you'd have
a BER rate. The BER rate would be different according to whos technology you
add ours to. This make sense? Why and how could you would you release a BER
rate? How could you if it was to be different in each application it is
used?
I hope I understand our tech. This is my story and I'm sticking to it until?
Allan Blevins
All telecom systems and many other technologies require a certain BERT or the digital data being transferred from point A to point B becomes corrupted to the point that it is unusable. The number expressed in a BERT specification is the number of bits of error out of a total number of bits transferred. A BERT test requires that a minimum number of digital data bits be transferred over time. BERT specs are typically defined simply as 10 to a minus power.
For example, DS1 or T1 telephone connections should be able to deliver data at a rate of no less than 10E-7 (ten to the minus 7). A typical test lasts less than 1 hour because testing equipment transfers billions of data bits in that time and measures data errors in real time. If a 1 hour test results in a BERT of 10E-7 than this means that an average of 1 error occurred for every 10 million bits transferred over the span of 1 hour. If the result was 10E-8 than an average of 1 error occurred for every 100 million bits transferred.
An example of another technology that requires a very low BERT is hard disc and CD technology. BERT values in this industry are typically 10E-12 or better (ten to the minus 12). In this technology, the BERT rate is based on the number of errors of data written then read from a disc.
A BERT spec always measures the performance of a product as a whole, not a specific technology aspect of the product. In our case, making a claim on the specific performance of the copper wire interface is meaningless. We are making a fiber to 4 wire line driver product. The BERT results are only valid when we measure the performance starting from fiber in, thru the whole system, to fiber out at the other end.
One issue that is probably not obvious about a technology product is that each functional block of the over all system has the potential to make the BERT unacceptable. The system is designed so that no one part creates unacceptable BERT results. Each product must be tested independently, a BERT for one Cu@OCx product does not mean other Cu@OCx <mailto:Cu@OCx> products will have the same bit error rate. The BERT spec for our first CU@)OCx <mailto:CU@)OCx> product, a 4-wire OC1 Line driver, is not an industry standard, but it is being designed it to meet the BERT standard of T-1 or DS-1 lines. 10E-7.
Excel - Greg
There has been alot of talk lately about BER rate. If I understand our technology correctly there is no way for them to release a BER rate. Why? Because the tech is a speed and distance driver of different applications of technology. Lets take companies abc tech as an example. They see our tech work. After deciding this is something that would definetly enhance what they have then the process begins. Their engineers meet with our engineers and apply our tech to theirs. At that time after tweaking and testing you'd have a BER rate. The BER rate would be different according to whos technology you add ours to. This make sense? Why and how could you would you release a BER rate? How could you if it was to be different in each application it is used? I hope I understand our tech. This is my story and I'm sticking to it until?
Excel - Greg
I was regretting the past
and fearing the future.
Suddenly my Lord was speaking:
“MY NAME IS I AM”!
He paused.
I waited. He continued!
“When you live in the past
with its mistakes and regrets,
it is hard. I AM not there.
My name is not I WAS.
When you live in the future,
with its problems and fears,
it is hard. I AM not there.
My name is not I WILL BE.
When you live in this moment
it is not hard. I AM here.
My name is I AM!”
Excel - Greg
Hitimer. As you will read below this isn't very fast at all compared to NW. But what is important in my opinion is I bet they'd be very interested to know with our tech they could expand who they serve and at a greater speed rate.
The mPhase TRAVERSER allows telephone companies to simultaneously deliver 1Mbps of high speed Internet access, up to 400 channels of digital television programming, and traditional voice service over existing loop infrastructure. We provide the most economical and practical solution for both service providers and consumers to the current constraints of delivering broadband services.
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology allows telephone companies to provide high speed Internet access and maximize the potential of installed telephone lines.
mPhase offers a specific type of DSL called Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line (RADSL), allowing high speed data transmission at speeds of 6 Mbps downstream and up to 1 Mbps upstream, increasing throughput more than 200 times faster than 28.8 K Internet connections.
What makes mPhase's DSL unique is its simultaneous delivery of high speed Internet access, digital video, and telephone service over an existing telephone line on an unshared platform. And because the transmission speed is rate adaptive, mPhase's DSL adjusts to the length and signal quality of the telephone line, automatically selecting the highest practical operating speed. We offer the only technology capable of transporting voice, digitaL television programming and data over the existing telephone infrastructure without impeding voice traffic or degrading the quality of service.
The TRAVERSER DVDDS can be installed at the home and telco central office within hours compared to lengthy lead times associated with laying fiber or upgrading the HFC architecture.
The TRAVERSER DVDDS provides an attractive opportunity by maximizing the value per line of the existing copper infrastructure. With the mPhase TRAVERSER the telco can generate additional revenue from high speed Internet data access and digital television transmissions.
The transmission of digital television over copper wire can benefit areas with low cable penetration, and also provide an alternative to cable TV and DBS. The TRAVERSER DVDDS will ultimately offer 400 channels, compared to an average 59 channels offered by CATV and 175 channels offered by DBS.
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Sonic. It looks to me that NV could help them greatly by increasing their speed and distance. I look at the tech as being a asset to companies rather then putting them out of business. I believe once the competition sees it in that light we will be in good shape.
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mPhase: Where Glass and Copper Meet TV
Can a company born from Defense Department technology get copper to act like coax even after it passes through glass? If so, it could turn the table on the incumbents and on AOL, by allowing every provider to offer TV over DSL (TVoDSL?).
by Patricia Fusco
of internetnews.com
Several major broadcasting networks this week joined mPhase Technologies Inc. ongoing tests for delivering television programming over digital subscriber lines.
Additional agreements were struck between mPhase (OTC:BB: XDSL) and CNBC, MSNBC, FOX Sports, and others. The networks are interested in testing mPhase's ability to deliver television signals over a twisted pair of copper wires.
TVoDSL
mPhase's flagship Traverser Digital Video and Data Delivery System enables the simultaneous high-bandwidth transmission of voice, data and digital TV over DSL.
In addition to the major TV networks currently under agreement with mPhase, including A&E, BBC, C-SPAN, Comedy Central, STARZ!, and others, the additional networks are part of an ongoing experiment being conducted by Hart Communications, Inc. in Hartwell, Georgia.
Hart Communications is the final destination for the mPhase joint venture with AlphaStar International Inc. initially formed in March to establish and distribute broadband television services over copper.
Currently, satellite stations located at mPhase's headquarters in Connecticut receive television network content from AlphaStar. mPhase grabs the programming content, and then reformats and compresses the data for transport to the CLEC in Georgia.
But the real news is that mPhase's Traverser DVDDS Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line technology is on the verge of enabling broadband providers to simultaneously transmit high-speed Internet access to customers, along with up to 400 channels of digital television programming and traditional voice lines (telephone service).
How'd this happen?
So if mPhase has attained a breakthrough in digital technology, why does its system for getting copper to act like coax remain uncontested by rival firms?
David Klimeck, mPhase chief technical officer, said mPhase remains amazed that competitors are not testing systems of their own to deliver digital broadcast signals over DSL.
"When Bell Core first developed ADSL in 1987, they did so to deliver video over copper," Klimeck said. "The only problem was that early telco tests failed. But then DSL developed and the Internet boomed and we're making RDSL work the well Bell Core intended."
The industry favors streaming media systems for delivering audio and video content over the Internet. Essentially, mPhase's system is video over IP. It isn't trying to reinvent streaming media technology, so telecom firms and DSL providers have been slow to embrace a technology tainted by previous failures.
Children of a lesser god
Klimeck maintains that mPhase's digital video delivery system is a distant relative of first generation DSL services.
"The mPhase system will operate over Bellcore-specific customer service areas within 12,000-feet of a central office to digital loop carrier or stand alone remote terminal," Klimeck said. "All we need is the bandwidth to feed the system and access to the copper wire. Our product is native MPEG3 transport at the digital video broadcast standard and operates like a digital TV headend in the sky."
The system seems relatively simple in that customers are provided with a set-top box that acts as a downlink to the central office, which acts like a digital TV headend through mPhase's Traverser. The receiving end runs output through multiplexers that draw up to the fiber, where an electrical to optical conversion is completed.
According to Klimeck, standard off-the-shelf technology can provide 48 customers with digital programming over one stand of fiber, without having to do wave division multiplexing to channelize broadcast programming.
When WDM technology is added, a single optic fiber permits three layers of program packages to simultaneously traverse the system, which allows mPhase to offer up to 151 channels over a single glass strand. The fiber connection goes to a mPhase Traverser access shelf to serve 144 subscribers. The system can be stacked, so a central office can serve several hundred subscribers, adding access shelves as it grows the service.
The people are ready
Klimeck said that most telecom firms have fiber capacity ready, and the companies that don't are willing to put glass in the ground when they realize the potential revenue mPhase Traverser can create for their operations.
"DSL providers can charge $40 to $50 per subscriber, just like cable services," Klimeck said. "Our business model assumes that programming acquisition costs will be equivalent to a cable company's, but a telecom firm's operating expense is lower because they're just using twisted pair, not splitters and amplifiers like cable systems require. Additional savings are realized through bundling voice, high-speed data and digital TV service together in one bill."
Klimeck said current tests of the technology are performing well for Hart Communications. In addition to the CELC test, mPhase is examining a point-to-point linking method with Pioneer communications in Kansas, after having completed the same type of review in Turkey. The firm also has new technical reviews coming up with Telmex in Mexico, so mPhase is making inroads with international and regional carriers.
mPhase is also completing pre-production manufacturing work with Flextronics International Ltd. (NASDAQ: FLEX) to coordinate a high volume launch of its Traverser campaign, tentatively scheduled for the first quart of next year.
The mPhase development provides hope for CLECs and broadband providers facing potential ruin at the hands of incumbent carriers undercutting DSL residential pricing.
While the DSL space has turned predatory, mPhase is poised to grant the companies a reprieve by allowing CLECs and broadband providers to offer customizable voice, data, and video services to businesses and residential users alike.
Related information
Technical document with diagrams of how the mPhase system works: http://www.mphasetech.com/html/pdf.htm
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Thanks Mosconiac for looking into it. Give them about a year and I bet they go back to free. Just like online brokers who have now lowered the cost of L2 and now have free streaming video quotes.
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At the University of Chicago Divinity School each year they have what is called “Baptist Day.” It is a day when all the Baptists in the area are invited to the school because they want the Baptist dollars to keep coming in. On this day each one is to bring a sack lunch to be eaten outdoors in a grassy picnic area. Every “Baptist Day” the school would invite one of the greatest minds to lecture in the theological education center.
One year they invited Dr. Paul Tillich. Dr. Tillich spoke for two and one-half hours proving that the resurrection of Jesus was false. He quoted scholar after scholar and book after book. He concluded that since there was no such thing as the historical resurrection the religious tradition of the church was groundless, emotional mumbo-jumbo, because it was based on a relationship with a risen Jesus, who, in fact, never rose from the dead in any literal sense. He then asked if there were any questions.
After about 30 seconds, an old, dark skinned preacher with a head of short-cropped, woolly white hair stood up in the back of the auditorium.
“Docta Tillich, I got one question,” he said as all eyes turned toward him. He reached into his sack lunch and pulled out an apple and began eating it. “Docta Tillich ...” CRUNCH, MUNCH ... “My question is a simple question, “CRUNCH, CUNCH ...”Now I ain’t never read them books you read ... “CRUNCH, MUNCH ... “and I can’t recite the Scriptures in the original Greek ... “ CRUNCH, MUNCH ... “I don’t know nothin’ about Niebuhr and Heidegger ...”CRUNCH, MUNCH . He finished the apple. “All I wanna know is: This apple I just ate—was it bitter or sweet?”
Dr. Tillich paused for a moment and answered in exemplary scholarly fashion: “I cannot possibly answer that question, for I haven’t tasted your apple.”
The white-haired preacher dropped the core of his apple into his crumpled paper bag, looked up at Dr. Tillich and said calmly, “Neither have you tasted my Jesus.”
The 1,000 plus in attendance could not contain themselves. The auditorium erupted with applause and cheers. Dr. Tillich thanked his audience and promptly left the platform.
Source unknown
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Hitimer. Yes this board is a breath of fresh air. Don't know why change is so hard for people to start posting here. Posting here is not wasting your time in my opinion. Once I-hub gets more features and starts promoting itself RB will be left with the yahoos.
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From another board. Hope this helps us research better.
Search tips:
It's kind of weak but there are links that aren't so weak...
http://www.sacbee.com/ib/news/ib_news03_20010426.html
Wired Life: Dozen tips to help you search Net efficiently
By David Hoye
(Published April 26, 2001)
Searching for things on the Web seems pretty easy. More often than not, even simple single-keyword searches help us find what we want. Still, everybody's search skills can stand fine-tuning. Here, then, are a dozen Web-searching tips and tidbits:
It's wise to try the same search on two or more search sites. Not all operate the same way, so the results may vary. So-called "meta" search sites will do the work for you, running your keyword through several search engines and reporting back in one spot.
There are several meta search sites available. Three include DogPile (www.dogpile.com), MetaCrawler (www.metacrawler.com) and Search.com (www.search.com).
Looking for images? You can try a "visual" search using Ditto.com (www.ditto.com). Meanwhile, AltaVista (www.altavista.com) can be told to look just for images if you click on the "Media/Topic Search" link.
If you think your searches are boring, check out what others are looking for. One way is via Search Voyeur at Excite (www.excite.com/search/voyeur/). A special window will display about 10 real-time Excite searches. The list refreshes every 30 seconds. If you see something interesting, click on it to view results.
If you use multiple keywords, some search sites automatically look for Web pages that include all the keywords listed. Some don't. To ensure results that include all your keywords, put a plus (+) sign before each keyword. Example: +President +George +Bush.
The minus (-) sign can be quite helpful. If you seek information about bass fishing, for example, a Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com) search using keyword bass is going to yield Web sites devoted to both fishing and music. But a search using keywords bass -music will reduce the list to mostly fishing sites.
Putting quote marks around two or more keywords tells the search site to look for that specific phrase or name. Yahoo! found 30,600 Web page matches for Cool Hand Luke, but a search for "Cool Hand Luke" narrowed the field to 2,940.
Afraid of what you might find? Google offers SafeSearch filtering (www.google.com/advanced_search) and AltaVista offers Family filtering. Parental warning: While such filtering helps, it's less than perfect, especially if your search terms have multiple meanings.
Who links to whom? Search sites such as AltaVista and Google can tell you. In place of a keyword, simply type link: followed by the URL, or address, of any Web site or individual Web page to find out if anybody out there links to that site or page. This is a handy way to find other Web sites on the same topic.
Some search results include what amounts to paid advertising. GoTo.com (www.goto.com), for example, offers a service called Premium Listings, in which companies can pay to have their sites listed at the top of search results. GoTo.com says the service helps feed results to America Online, Lycos (www.lycos.com), AltaVista, HotBot (www.hotbot.com) and others.
Sometimes paid listings are easy to spot. In addition to being at the top of the results list, they're usually set apart from other results and placed under a heading such as "Sponsored Links" or "Featured Listings."
Want to search a single Web site? Go to AltaVista and type host: followed by the URL, or address, of the site in question. Then, type a keyword or two and click Search.
AltaVista will then search for the keyword(s) you listed at the site you specified. Example: host:www.sacbee.com kings. That tells AltaVista to find everything at Sacbee.com related to the keyword "kings."
A company called Pointera (www.pointera.com) wants to beef up Web searching. Using Napster-like file sharing technology, Web users could scan for files on up to 500 million individual PCs around the world. Will this come to pass? Check the Pointera site for more details.
A good source of search engine information is Search Engine Watch (www.search-enginewatch.com). The site offers tutorials, lists of major search sites, charts that compare features of various search sites, the latest search site news and much more.
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Family. Thanks for the article. Won't be long before those articles are popping up all over the place!
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Hi Matt,
The more icons you can put in chat the better. We have a great time using them in different situations. Hard to explain. Crazy shareholders. LOL!
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Thanks to NT for finding this
FLEISHMAN-HILLARD BECOMES WORLD’S LEADING PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM
Firm’s $342.8M in 2000 Worldwide Revenue Vaults It Past Four Global Rivals to No. One Slot
ST.LOUIS, April 25, 2001 — Driven by 2000 revenue growth of nearly 61 percent, Fleishman-Hillard Inc. has become the world’s leading public relations firm, according to new figures released by the Council of Public Relations Firms.
Fleishman-Hillard’s $342.8 million in 2000 worldwide revenues leapfrogged the agency past four rivals – Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton, Weber Shandwick, and Porter Novelli – to take the top spot, according to the Council. The Council’s figures also confirmed that the St. Louis-based firm retained its position as the largest public relations agency in the United States, with 2000 U.S. revenues of $266.8 million.
"We’re certainly proud of this milestone, which is a tribute to the outstanding work of the worldwide Fleishman-Hillard team," said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John D. Graham. "But it’s important to note that we never set out to be the biggest agency in the world, only to be the best – through smart, dedicated people; top-quality client service; and a strong culture based on teamwork, personal commitment, and the highest ethical standards. Those are the major factors that have driven our growth, and will continue to drive it in the future."
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Deeba. I don't want to speak for the company. But I would place my money on it being delayed.
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In my talk with John today he once again confirmed our conversation that took place late last week. That is the delay of the new name will have no effect what so ever on the release of news no matter the quality of that news. He also mentioned we're very close to some news announcements that should make us all happy. So remember this. The delay of the shareholder meeting and name change has not taken away from the onward forward approach of NV.
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Theforcethree. Very interesting article. This will be fun to see it play out. Especially if we are involved. Had no idea they had so much debt. They do have some parts they could sell though.
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Hopefully the tech sector is seeing a bottom. Once they feel they are turning around I can't help but think the big boys will be in a better mood to spend money.
Many High-Tech Firms Say Profit-Bottoms in Sight
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Now that the bulk of high-tech giants have reported quarterly results, a consensus is building that the second quarter will be the bottom of the downturn in high-tech spending and that companies can better forecast how the rest of the year will likely shape up.
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM.N), when it reported first-quarter results on Wednesday, said it's on track to meet earnings estimates for the rest of the year. Intel Corp. (INTC.O), which reported earnings on Tuesday, said that late last month customers started again ordering chips for immediately delivery. And Microsoft Corp. reported profits and sales on Thursday that topped forecasts.
"We've got a much, much clearer vision of where we're going -- it's just not a happy place," John Sullivan, chief financial officer for chipmaker PMC Sierra Corp. (PMCS.O) told Reuters after his company reported results on Thursday that matched reduced forecasts. "It's not murky anymore like it was a quarter ago."
TECH STOCKS RALLY
Indeed, Intel's comments that its microprocessor business appeared to have stabilized along with a surprise U.S. interest rate cut breathed life into all but moribund tech stocks. For the Week, the Nasdaq surged 10.3 percent, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, of which Intel is a component, rose 4.5 percent and the Standard & Poor's 500 gained 5 percent.
Intel, as the world's largest chipmaker and maker of more than 80 percent of the microprocessors that power personal computers, has long been a tech bellwether, as has the other half of the Wintel world, No. 1 software maker Microsoft.
Although Intel had one of its worst quarters in years -- first-quarter net income fell 82 percent to $485 million, or 7 cents a share and sales tumbled 16 percent to $6.68 billion -- Chief Financial Officer Andy Bryant said he saw some rays of hope toward the end of the period.
"In our microprocessor business, given what we saw happening in March, gives us a lot more comfort that we'll have a pretty normal second quarter and a seasonally strong second half of the year," Bryant told Reuters in an interview.
Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel's chief rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD.N), while it, too, saw profits fall from a year ago, didn't fare nearly as badly. Its net income declined by 34 percent to $124.8 million, or 37 cents, as sales rose 9 percent to $1.19 billion, on the back of market share gains.
MICROSOFT PROFITS
The company's Chairman and Chief Executive, W.J. "Jerry" Sanders echoed the view of his rival's chief financial officer on a conference call. "We're certainly scratching the bottom here," he said. "I think the computer industry will lead us out" of the current semiconductor downturn.
Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., on Thursday said
third-quarter net profit inched up 2.5 percent to $2.45 billion, or 44 cents, from $2.39 billion, or 32 cents a share, as sales rose 14 percent to $6.46 billion. It credited strong sales of its Windows 2000 operating system and other corporate software for the results that bucked those of many other high-technology companies.
And computer- and printer-maker Hewlett-Packard Co. (HWP.N), while it announced on Wednesday it would nearly triple the number of job cuts in the face of a weaker-than-expected fiscal second quarter, went so far as to call the bottom.
"I think a recovery is too strong a word, but we're clearly talking about the second quarter being a bottom," H-P's Chief Executive Carly Fiorina told a conference call on Wednesday. Her comments dove-tailed with those of Intel the day before and markets across the globe surged on Bryant's comments and further buoyed by those of Fiorina and other high-tech chieftains.
The two-day gain in the Nasdaq from Tuesday's close to Thursday's close was 13.5 percent, though stocks paused for breather on Friday following the broader rally that was spurred by a surprise Federal Reserve interest rate cut on Wednesday.
SUN NOT SO SANGUINE
Of course, not all the news was good.
Computer and server maker Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW.O) missed a lowered sales target in its fiscal third quarter and while profit was in line with forecasts, it said on Thursday it wasn't yet clear if the economic downturn -- most pronounced in the United States -- was drawing to a close.
"The economy looks more like Bill Clinton's lie detector test than any kind of sine wave," said Sun Chairman and Chief Executive Scott McNealy on a conference call. "The real issue is can you turn on a dime as the needle starts slamming back and forth."
Sun's profits tumbled by nearly half to $263 million, or 8 cents a share, from $464 million, or 14 cents, a year ago as sales inched up 2 percent to $4.1 billion.
And Swedish telecom equipment maker and No. 3 mobile phone maker Ericsson (LMEb.ST) said on Friday it would post another loss in the second quarter and cut a further 12,000 jobs as it struggles to get back in the black.
"We have taken cost-cutting measures to adapt to a situation where we don't see any improvement in market conditions for the rest of the year," Ericsson Chief Executive Kurt Hellstrom told Reuters.
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The Blood
One night in a church service a young woman felt the tug of God at her heart. She responded to God’s call and accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior. The young woman had a very rough past, involving alcohol, drugs, and prostitution. But, the change in her was evident.
As time went on she became a faithful member of the church. She eventually became involved in the ministry, teaching young children. It was not very long until this faithful young woman had caught the eye and heart of the pastor’s son. The relationship grew and they began to make wedding plans. This is when the problems began. You see, about one half of the church did not think that a woman with a past such as hers was suitable for a pastor’s son.
The church began to argue and fight about the matter. So they decided to have a meeting. As the people made their arguments and tensions increased, the meeting was getting completely out of hand. The young woman became very upset about all the things being brought up about her past. As she began to cry the pastor’s son stood. He could not bear the pain it was causing his wife to be. He began to speak and his statement was this:
“My fiancee’s past is not what is on trial here. What you are questioning is the ability of the Blood of Jesus to wash away sin. Today you have put the blood of Jesus on trial. So, does it wash away sin or not?”
The whole church began to weep as they realized that they had been slandering the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Too often, even as Christians, we bring up the past and use it as a weapon against our brothers and sisters. Forgiveness is a very foundational part of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. If the blood of Jesus does not cleanse the other person completely then it cannot cleanse us completely. If that is the case, then we are all in a lot of trouble.
What can wash away my sins,
nothing but the blood of Jesus....
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New Visual Entertainment Strengthens Executive Team with Senior
Level <NVEI.OB>
New Visual Entertainment Strengthens Executive Team with Senior-Level Appointments SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2001-- Newly Appointed COO, CTO, and CFO Bring More Than 75 Years of Experience to Senior Management Team New Visual Entertainment Inc. (OTCBB:NVEI), a pioneer in the development of proprietary transmission technology, today announced the appointment of several top-level executives to the management team. New Visual Entertainment names Allan Blevins as chief operating officer, Mike Shepperd as chief technology officer, and Tom Sweeney as chief financial officer. Pursuant to New Visual Entertainment's acquisition of New Wheel Technology Inc. and the successful demonstration of its Cu@OCx technology now being brought to market by New Visual Entertainment, New Wheel Technology founder Allan Blevins was named COO of New Visual Entertainment. Having been president of New Wheel Technology since its inception in February of 2000, Blevins brings more than 32 years of experience in the telecommunication, network and telephony industries, and possesses a strong command of design, product management, manufacturing and marketing. Most recently Blevins served as director of new technologies at Arescom, and prior to that, as director of network development for Metricom. Michael Shepperd, also a founder of New Wheel Technology, was named as CTO of New Visual Entertainment. Along with Blevins, he developed the company's flagship Cu@OCx technology and has served as CTO of New Wheel Technology since the company's inception. His more than 24 years in systems design provide him with an acute understanding of telephony and telecommunications product design and manufacturing. Prior to New Wheel Technology, Shepperd owned and operated a consulting firm designing both software and hardware for technology companies. Shepperd and Blevins each hold issued patents in the field of transmission technology, and have both served on the ISDN standards committee for three years. Tom Sweeney joins the organization as CFO from Tatum CFO Partners LLP, where he is a partner. He possesses over 23 years of enterprise and financial management experience, working in "Big 5" public accounting and management consulting. Recently Sweeney served as CFO of Mitchell International, a provider of information software, print publications and business solutions for the insurance and automotive collision repair industries. He was brought on board for his experience forming and managing early stage technology companies. "Allan, Michael, and Tom will prove to be a driving force as we further develop and launch Cu@OCx technology," stated New Visual Entertainment CEO Ray Willenberg Jr. "The addition of such phenomenal technologists and managers, coupled with the unique expertise they each bear, will serve New Visual Entertainment well during this exciting and critical time." Sweeney replaces former CFO Jim Kesaris. Kesaris leaves New Visual Entertainment amicably for an opportunity with San Diego State University, where he will serve as CEO of the institution's $40 million service division. "Jim played an integral role in our growth to date, and we hate to see him go," said Willenberg. "We congratulate him on his new position with SDSU and wish him the best in all of his endeavors." About New Visual Entertainment Inc. New Visual Entertainment is pioneering the development of a proprietary broadband transmission technology with the mission to utilize existing copper telecommunications infrastructure to deliver high data content to the home or office at VDSL or fiber optic transfer rates. Through its New Wheel Technology Inc. subsidiary, New Visual Entertainment is developing this technology, which would allow the bundling of voice, video, and data over existing copper telephone wires, thus potentially eliminating the need for fiber optic cable to the home or office. Its initial development efforts include Very High Rate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL), and have demonstrated results exceeding industry standards. New Visual Entertainment's common stock is traded on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board under the symbol NVEI. --30--jf/sd* dw/sd CONTACT: New Visual Entertainment, San Diego Rich Wilson (Media contact), 619/692-0333 or John Howell (Investor contact), 619/692-0333 or Fleishman-Hillard for New Visual Entertainment Bridget Stachowski (Media contact), 619/237-7717 Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: http://www.businesswire.com
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NEW VISUAL ENTERTAINMENT INC has filed a Form S-3 (Registration Statement)
with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Click on the following hyperlink to view this filing:
http://www.freeedgar.com/search/WL.asp?C=1026595&F=S-3&D=4/13/2001
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care to learn more about Branding firms? Go to the link below.
http://search.dogpile.com/texis/search?q=branding+firms&geo=no&fs=web
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The UXB Methodology. Brand Mapping is:
Specifically designed to unearth the untapped potential of your brand.
Proprietary and highly effective at uncovering the core issues critical to your success.
Fluid, allowing us to customize it for our clients in a productive manner which seamlessly meets pre-identified objectives.
Explosive, often leading to exponential growth and momentum for the brand in focus.
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What is the UXB Arsenal?
A full-service team of experts operating from a central brand strategy developed through the collaboration of your business and the UXB.
A group of best-in-class businesses from which the UXB assembles a custom team of discipline-specific partners to meet your unique needs.
Partnered businesses that share information and insight toward the common goal of changing your reality.
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Study Foresees $5 Billion DSL Market by 2005
Wayne Kawamoto
Managing Editor, CLEC-Planet
April 10, 2001 -- New Paradigm Resources Group (NPRG), a research firm covering the competitive communications industry, forecasted a $5 billion market for residential and business DSL within four years, a nearly three-fold increase over current market levels.
NPRG's finding appears in the second edition of its DSL Report, an analysis of the direction and status of the companies that provide Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) broadband services.
DSL technology transforms the existing copper phone lines connecting millions of homes and businesses to the global communications network into high-capacity data pipes capable of supporting broadband Internet applications.
"Recent market turbulence and technical shortcomings have led many to misdiagnose the DSL industry as terminally ill," said Terry Barnich, President of New Paradigm Resources Group. "Last-mile broadband connectivity, however, can only come from a few competing technologies, and the market will support DSL's continued growth. The only question is, which existing business models can overcome technical hurdles, deploy DSL cost effectively and meet the continued growth in demand for broadband?"
Demand for DSL is strong. NPRG forecasts that revenues from business and residential DSL access will reach $5 billion annually by 2005, versus $1.8 billion today.
http://www.clec-planet.com/news/000104/april10study.html
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Filing link
http://www.freeedgar.com/search/WL.asp?C=1026595&F=4&D=4/10/2001
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Deaba. $4.00
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