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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><i>Curtis Bayne Writes:<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText><i>Wireless/Microwave is used extensively (and has been used) for YEARS. Telstra, PowerLink, Optus, VHA, Allegro, Polyfone, BigAir, NuSkope, WorldWithoutWires, LinkNet, Tekhaus, HaleNet, Internode, NextGen, Silk Telecom, Amcom, Vertel and COUNTLESS other ISPs/telcos have been using it and continue to do so for backhaul and end-user access. Hell, the entire AT&T Long Lines network used TDM over microwave as the preferred carriage technology for the US continental PSTN for decades.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>A brief history lesson:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thomas A. Edison, 1892:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>“I have discovered that if sufficient elevation be obtained to overcome the curvature of the earth’s surface and to reduce to the minimum the earth’s absorption, electric signaling between distant points can be carried on by induction without the use of wires.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>“... it is interesting to note that the telegraph was followed only 40 years later by the increasingly remarkable invention of radio frequency transmission. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Thomas Edison experimented with signals that could be generated and detected at a distance in 1883, but did not appreciate the importance of “the Edison Effect”. Edison received a patent for wireless telegraphy in 1885, but was preoccupied with other projects. Edison sold the patent “for a song” to Marconi, who put extensive effort into the technology. By 1901, he sent Morse Code from Massachusetts to Cornwall, England.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>-Dan</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>