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Show i - i I"?.!" J' J . - - 7 . 1 - V ' ? , qv t i it A-28 The Park Record Saturday, March 25, 2000 OrientAl & Version Ku$S i AtAdib's, yj-'-''yrl You'll q experience .3p5r2lav;4 find r the ga-. x- unusual, VJ magical J fS"3! ""Si rare, ;1 beauty, rttoS Sfi ne" r1 If "g;v: and J enchanting - J gg VL ' ' antique . patterns, ? ltpw5SnyJF3"lv band & crafts- ma,tcr- m.n.h.'p I pieces of I at most L a timeless I I affordable agT Pr'ces Wc Offer: Kn6 CVnn5 Apprtittng Kus F Bwi Tr6c Lasers newest edge in Web technology 3 k 'V SEATTLE (CNET) The former president of AT&T Corp.'s wireless unit has left a multimillion-dollar payday behind for the stuff of science sci-ence fiction. Dan Hesse could have stayed on through an upcoming upcom-ing lucrative spinoff of A.&T's wireless business, despite being passed over for the top spot in the new organization. Instead he chose to become chief executive at Seattle-based TeraBeam Networks, a start-up thai plans to deliver the Internet to metropolitan businesses via laser beams, an unproved technology. tech-nology. By beaming Internet and corporate corpo-rate data through windows, companies compa-nies such as TeraBeam believe they can offer communications services faster and at lower costs than competitors. com-petitors. Unlike competing technologies tech-nologies such as fiber optics and w ireless. lasers do not require costly cost-ly wireless spectrum licenses, access to rooftops, or trenches under city streets, proponents say. "There's a tremendous amount of potential for (lasers), especially when laying fiber is a problem." said V incent Chan, a professor of electrical engineering, astronautics and computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "It was a difficult decision to leave," Hesse said. "There were tremendous financial incentives to stay. But wrier, I saw the TeraBeam technology, I've never seen anything any-thing that had quite the potential to disrupt the whole industry because it is so much better than anything else out there." Laser service providers install receiver equipment near a window in their customers' offices, and aim laser beams from a rented office in a nearby building with a conventional conven-tional high-speed data connection. The equipment uses lenses, similar to those found in telescopes, to project the invisible beams. Some industry experts say susceptibility sus-ceptibility to foul weather leaves lasers far from an ideal solution. Heavy rain, snow, air turbulence and particularly fog can weaken laser signals and cause outages or slow connection speeds, experts say. "'( Lasers are) not perfect; 80 percent per-cent of the time you'll do well, and when there's bad weather, vou'll need to be prepared to have downtime down-time or slow service," MIT's Chan said. Others foresee only a role for laser-based communications in cities only while other means of communication are being established. estab-lished. "I can see it ... as a temporary connection while fiber is being built." Nicoll said. "But 1 dont see it as a permanent technology." Still others, including equipment manufacturers that have high hopes for laser gear, believe it will be only one of many technologies. "We donl see it doing away with fiber, but there are many, many times bigger than a niche where fiber is not appropriate or wireless has interference issues and this will be an alternative," said Stuart Waldman. director for Lucent's OpticAir laser product line. Some experts believe laser technologies tech-nologies will have their greatest success in space, where the light travels farther without interference, as a means to connect satellites for long-distance networks. "That's a real killer technology." Chan said. "In the future I think it 9 n p I A ,f I Jf. 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Utah 84060. Phone (435) 615-2609 or (435) 649-3000, www.thelodge..com Call Matthew Sidford, Exclusive Listing Agent. Jess Reid" Real Estate at 647-3215 for more information regarding the Two Weeks for Free" promotion. will be very competitive with undersea fiber optic networks." Formed in 1997, TeraBeam has been testing a laser-based network in Seattle since the beginning of the year. The company expects to launch commercial service in the city by the end of the year and expects to start service in most major cities in the United States and some overseas within three years. Separately, a handful of Lucent customers have been testing the OpticAir gear. The company expects to begin selling the products prod-ucts commercially in early April. The emerging industry already has been careful to avoid the space-age space-age associations with comic book laser guns and eye surgery lasers. "This you can look right into, even w ith binoculars, and it doesnl harm the human eye," said TeraBeam vice president Stephen Gartside, noting that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesnt require any warnings on usage of this kind of lasers. "Those infrared lasers are no different than your TV remote con-, troller," MIT professor Chan said. Boy Scouts peeved at BLM plans SILVER CITY, Idaho (AP) Boy Scout leaders and others are upset at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's plan to charge a use fee for the scouts' annual Camporee on agency land. The bureau said regulations require a $4 fee per person per day, but offered to waive that fee if organizers listed the agency as a co-sponsor. U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage. Chenoweth-Hage. a frequent critic of the bureau, is a leader of the opposition. opposi-tion. "Rather than attempting to charge the Boy Scouts, the BLM should pay the boys for their work, which I would estimate is worth as much as $24,000." Chenoweth-Hage wrote in a letter let-ter to the agency last week. Scouts perform cleanup and other service projects during the annual campout. For more than 30 years. Bigfoot District Boy Scouts have held an annual Camporee on the second weekend of June. About 200 kids attend the event each year. In all those years there has been no mention of a fee. scout leader Martin Thorne said. That was a mistake. Bureau of Land Management representatives representa-tives say. "We are supposed to be charging for these kind of events," the agency's Owyhee Recreation Planner Judi Zuckert said. "Because of regulations, the only way we can waive the fees is by co-sponsoring the event." Zuckert has asked that the Bureau of Land Management be listed as a co-sponsor on all literature liter-ature and to be co-insured on a $1 million insurance policy. As in the past, the agency would provide pro-vide trash bags, a water truck and a hauling truck if those vehicles vehi-cles are not needed for firefight-ing firefight-ing purposes elsewhere. Chenoweth-Hage calls the demands for co-sponsorship reprehensible rep-rehensible and silly, and suggests the agency should drop the requirements, "apologize and begin acting like a good host rather than the neighborhood bully." MOAB New 3 Bel nil. rondo on the olf course $ 175 per night. Call 649-3834 4 t |