[CWN-Summit] Re: CWN-Summit Digest, Vol 2, Issue 5

[Jack Unger]

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> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 04:40:51 -0500
> From: David Young <dyoung at pobox.com>
> Subject: [CWN-Summit] Re: does anybody know about D2D wifi?
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>>Message: 1
>>Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 19:21:53 -0500
>>From: Stelios Valavanis <stel at onShore.com>
>>Subject: [CWN-Summit] does anybody know about D2D wifi?
>>To: cwn-summit at chambana.net
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>>these guys claim double the distance using their radios. what's the word on 
>>it?
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>>www.parkervision.com
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> Stelios,
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> Their claims are not outrageous, but they are vague---"up to one mile",
> oh c'mon!  The whitepaper on D2D that I read was kooky market-ese.
> I will wait for an independent comparison of their product with a field
> of competing products before final judgment, but I strongly suspect that
> D2D is hype.
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> Dave
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I second Dave's conclusions. After reading the D2D White Paper, I 
concluded that either:

1. Parkervision is technically confused,
or
2. Parkervision accepts that trying to confuse their potential customers 
is acceptable, or
3. Parkervision's public relations firm has only vague clues about how 
D2D works.

"All of the above" is also a possibility.

jack

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