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S3 has announced that the company and VIA Technologies have completed the requirements of all government agencies for their joint venture transaction. Under the deal, Via will purchase S3's graphics chip business in exchange for returning a 15% stake it had in S3 and assuming other liabilities. The deal is valued at $323 million and is set to close by January.

S3, originally founded as a PC graphics company, used its acquisition of Diamond Multimedia to target Internet appliances, broadband communications, home networking and graphics and audio solutions. Now, renamed SONICblue, the company will change its focus to become a digital media company, with business units surrounding its Rio MP3 music players, Diamond products (Mako, HomeFree and Supra) and Frontpath Internet appliances.

The company’s Rio business has begun shipping the Rio Receiver in addition to its portable devices. The receiver connects to a PC and home network to access audio files. Another SONICblue product, Rio Racks, will play MP3 files within the home without a PC. These devices will be priced around $500, with initial shipments late this year for the Christmas season.

The company will also move into the automotive space with its acquisition of MPEG, a company specializing in digital audio devices for automotive markets.

The first Frontpath appliance to be released is the ProGear, a tablet aimed at commercial buyers priced from $1,200 to $1,500. Sales are scheduled for early 2001, after a round of market trials is completed. After an initial release, the tablet will be sold to consumers at a lower price of $500, subsidized by Internet service providers.

The ProGear, couples hardware and software to deliver a wireless, portable, broadband-based product with a 10.4 inch LCD screen. It has touchscreen technology and handwriting recognition and offers email, a personal organizer, custom applications, MP3s, ebooks, and Internet access.

http://www.sonicblue.com

2054.2 Story of the Issue

***NGN2000 - The Future of Networking

by John Latta

Next Generation Networks is a first class conference crafted by John McQuillan. In a nut shell the conference reflects the struggle between the old and new with the old being the traditional phone connection based network and the new being a packet based connectionless network. But it is much deeper than this. It is also about electronics verses optics with the latter achieving 2X performance every 9 months while electronics based on Moore's law lags with improvements on an 18-month basis. Thus, from an implementation perspective network architectures are seeking to push electronics to the edge of the networks as optics increasingly dominate. However, optics has severe limitations in that active circuits are not available and the central function is to switch. As a result optics at a transport level is point to point, or at least, lambda grained with WDM fiber, it is point to point.

Conference Overview

NGN is being held in a hotel across from the Washington, DC Convention center. The hotel is strained to capacity to hold the event. The tradeshow floor is tiny and cramped to the point where not another booth can be accommodated. The isles are packed such that it is nearly impossible to walk by many booths. Yet, the conference chairman, John McQuillan, announced that it will move to Boston, but it will not become a trade show. He feels it essential that for the personal nature of the show to be preserved the attendance must be capped and not allowed to grow unchecked. For this event he stated that 100's were turned away. This show ranks in networking with the Seybold events - first class. Every attendee gets 3 volumes of all the talks, which must be submitted by the speakers 2 months in advance so that all the books can be printed. Further, there is a CD with all the talks on it. As one of the speakers stated - John runs the show with military precision. One of the problems is that there are too many sessions with high interest topics. A session on moving fiber to the metro network was so packed that they were passing out chits so those waiting could enter in the proper order when others exited. In spite of these limitations we picked up only positive comments on the show. Attendees were also present from all over the world.

Intelligent Optical Networking

Where are future networks going? Part of this was addressed in an excellent tutorial given on Optical Networking Technologies.

Today, there is an overlay of two optical networking technologies taking place at the same time. The more traditional solution based on a ring topology is SONET. However, this has major limitations. Some of these include interfacing with other SONET rings and transport of non-ATM protocols. The favored technology is mesh, which is a more traditional networking approach. However, the implementation of this is very much based on optical technologies and this is the basis for Intelligent Optical Networks.

The layering of the Intelligent Optical Network, from the bottom is: fiber, wave, lightpath and service. A key point is that the transport is based on lambda - the single frequency band used for transport in a WDM fiber. It is the add/drop and switching of these frequency bands which provides the basis for optical networking. It is here that switching takes place but this is quite crude - compared to packet switching. One of the reasons for the crudeness is the limitations of optical components and the lack of visibility, with optics, into the contents of the stream. Yet, these limitations should not be seen as the foundation for significant drawbacks of optical networking. The catch phrase is - if it is bits use electronics, if it is streams us optics.

What Intelligent Optical Networking provides is an end-to-end delivery of ATM, IP, Ethernet and OC-N services. Note that these are both connection based and connectionless. In fact, the driver for many of the new services is GE (gigabit Ethernet) and 10GE. A point made many times in the Intelligent Optical Networking presentation is that the network can be "point and configure" networking even at the user level. The most significant factor in this technology is that with the transition from SONET based networks, which are the purview of the provider, with Intelligent Optical Networking the network and its configuration can extend directly to the end user. Thus, there is significant value added to the network when the customer is a part of the optical interconnect and service definition.

Where the Net Is Going Next - John McQuillian

John is a deep thinker and has an uncanny ability to weave his observations into a very compelling presentation. He did this again at NGN2000. To address the topic of his talk he examined the contradictions surrounding the status and future of the net. To accomplish this he presented a thesis then an antithesis and a synthesis of these two views. In this way he could expose the many contradictory views of what is happening in the evolution of the network. The cute part of the presentation was his ability to inject the views of the profound thinkers of communism - interpreted in a next generation network framework. An excellent example of this approach was in addressing the future of the network - a thesis would be - the future of the net looks like the present but it will be bigger, faster and more of it. The antithesis is that there is a revolution underway which is expressed as NG providers will build NG networks using NG technology from NG vendors using NG funding. Yet, a view which represents the synthesis of these is one of organic growth where the old and new will coexist in a complex whole. In this context he then proceeded to analyze the NGN future for industry structure, capital market dynamics, network economics, key bottlenecks, network architecture, dominant culture and service provider ecology. It was not only entertaining but deep in its perspective on the forces which are shaping the development and evolution of a digital infrastructure.

A recurrent theme in many of the sessions is the contradictory messages being sent by Wall Street on the future of telecommunications. In recent months most of the stocks of both the large telecommunications companies have been battered and the staples of the future, such as Cisco, have been hammered down. An interesting view presented by John McQuillian is that the intensity of M&A, as a means of liquidity, will continue in spite of the downturn. He stated that in the service provider space the advantage goes to the incumbents with consolidation for the new players being the norm. While in the network chip space incumbents will acquire nearly all the startups. In the system vendor space startups will challenge the existing companies, including Cisco and Lucent, to the point where these companies will find it difficult to continue to grow.

For the major carriers a bet-your-business crunch lies ahead which centers on capital expenditure in the transition to the new network architectures. In 1996 90% of the revenue was from POTS while the capital expenditure was $43b based on a $218b revenue stream. In 2000 2/3 of the revenue was from POTS but the capital expenditure will be at 3:1 of the revenue - $326b of revenue and $105b in spending. While in 2001 the spending on cap ex will be 1/2 of the revenue stream. The crunch comes in 2005 when only 1/2 of the revenue will come from POTS. Only those carriers who have invested heavily in infrastructure for non-POTS service will survive but this comes with a very heavy toll of investing. Yet, the contradiction in today's stock market is that the value of the communications companies has plummeted. As John Sidgmore, Vice Chairman of WorldCom stated later in his keynote - many of the telecommunications companies are trading at book value. With that it is easier to divest rather than stay in business as a whole.

One of the best illustrations of the transitions taking place in network lies between SONET and Gigabit Ethernet. There is a widely held view that SONET, the original fiber based implementation largely based on ATM, is legacy in the context of the need for Internet based services. John McQuillian provided interesting statistics on both. SONET spending was $7.3b in 1999. WDM is growing at 98% per year and SONET is only at 62%. There were 2.3m SONET and SDH modules shipped in 1999. Gigabit Ethernet is to grow 200% in 2000 to $4b. A 10 Gigabit Ethernet port is expected to cost $3,500 while an OC-48 costs $50,000 and OC-192 is $180,000. CIBC predicts that Ethernet will appear as a public service by 2004 and the value of that market will be $15b.

Venture Capital Investment Roundup

Venture investors have been rocked by the turmoil in both the dot com sector and telecommunications. Geoff Yang, of Redpoint Ventures, asked probing questions about the continued high evaluations of the telecommunications equipment providers while the buyers, the telecommunications companies are in the tank. He articulated a key point which underlies the drive to optical networks - while Moore's law is laggard with improvements in performance on a 18 month cycle optical performance doubles every 9 months. As a result, there is great pressure to eliminate as much silicon from the network as possible. The underlying reason for this is that in order to keep up with demand only optics is viable. Thus, electronics is getting pushed farther and farther to the edge of the network. Geoff also stated the hot areas for investments include: optical components, Internet data center, and storage service providers. He concluded by stating that the landscaping changing events are Ethernet and wireless.

Iospan Wireless

Tucked away in a session on Fixed Broadband Wireless Technologies was a presentation by Arogyaswami Paulraj, Founder, Chairman and CTO of Iospan Wireless, formally known as Gigabit Wireless. Paulraj is a professor on leave from Stanford while he helped form this company. NGN2000 was the coming out event for the company. For the first time they described the challenge of BWA (Broadband Wireless Access). At the same time the company released a press announcement on the company, its technology roll out and the name change. The requirements of the market, which appears to be largely based on Sprint's buy requirements for its MMDS buildout, are:

-Symmetric speeds > 4 - 5 Mb/s

-QoS and Availability

<15min/month down time

-Low Cost

CPE $200 to $300

-User Install

-Scalable

-Migration to Portability

Chart after chart he described how difficult this problem is. In the end the following is required:

Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna technology where there are multiple transmit and receive antennas. This is seen as critical to accomplish the requirements above, especially in hostile RF environments in the MMDS bands, where Non-Line of Site (LOS), communication is used. MIMO allows for spatial, polarization and temporal diversity.

ODFM modulation

Frequency Reuse - cellular

The following tidbits came from the talk, questions and booth discussions.

Iospan has 60 PhD's working on this.

Iospan has completed its own outdoor tests and is now integrating its products.

A cell is based on 3 sectors and thus there is frequency reuse.

There was a prototype base station receiver and consumer antenna in the Iospan booth. However, it was not clear that these were populated equipment samples.

The CPE antenna has 4 discrete antennas in one housing which is approximately 18" X 9" X 4". Given the size it is not clear how this can be a consumer self install, especially on a window.

First generation implementation is based on a base station line card which services a 2 MHz band that is translated into a 13.5Mb/s downstream and 6.75Mb/s upstream path for that sector.

The back haul bandwidth uses OC-3.

A single cell site is capable of supporting 15,000 users but the bandwidth is shared by these users and this is in turn determined by the spectrum available for that cell.

The operational model for the first generation systems is a cable modem - many users sharing limited service capacity with the emphasis on the downstream bandwidth. Thus, this model is well suited for Internet cruising or streaming media downloads.

Although the system can certainly support video to the home including video conferencing the most valuable commodity is spectrum and this limits what can be done. This is the basis for the cable modem deployment model - spectrum makes bandwidth a shared resource among all the users on in a given time.

Units will ship for evaluation in Q2 2001 of which Iospan expects the first units to go to Sprint for field trials.

Iospan feels it can get to $200 to $300 CPE but not on the first generation.

Sprint has delayed its original purchase of equipment for the implementation of broad deployment of MMDS services, which was originally scheduled to take place in Q3 2000. The WAVE Report believes this to be due to the poor performance of current solutions which are not as sophisticated as those provided by Iospan. Further, Sprint has set very aggressive schedules for component prices which others have stated will be hard to achieve. Iospan feels that it just takes time to get the technology to work which we regard as another way to state it feels it has a competitive opportunity in the Sprint buy and Sprint feels it has to delay the buy.

Cisco is a player in the MMDS market because of its purchase of Clarity. Some of the employees of what was Clarity were also students of Professor Paulraj. Cisco is apparently adopting MIMO technology in order to get adequate performance and to be able to compete in the market, i.e., the upcoming bids for equipment buys by Sprint and WorldCom.

2054.3 3D

***Eos Systems Announces Release of PhotoModeler Pro 4.0

(October 23)

Eos Systems has announced the release of PhotoModeler Pro 4.0, a version of their software program that uses photographs to build 3D models and measurements. PhotoModeler Pro 4.0 adds many features and improvements, making it a powerful modeling and measuring software package. PhotoModeler Pro 4.0 sells for $795 US. Current customers are entitled to special upgrade pricing as low as $395US.

PhotoModeler Pro 4.0 is designed to handle complex and demanding projects. Features include Curves (full NURBS curves), Edges, Constraints, new Surfacing Functions, improved Single Photo Project capabilities, Enhanced Referencing, Projections, Field Camera Calibration and Automated Referencing functions. These features are in addition to the standard features of PhotoModeler Pro, which include automatic camera orientation, surface drawing, enhanced file export, enhanced photo-texturing, cylinder modeling, and multimedia tutorials.

PhotoModeler Pro is used for applications including 3D animation, architecture, accident reconstruction, forensics, archaeology, engineering, piping, surveying, and webpage design.

PhotoModeler Pro 4.0 is a 32-bit program that runs on Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT 4.0(sp3+). The minimum system requirements are 166Mhz Pentium, 32MB RAM, 30MB hard disk space, 800X600 screen with 32,000 colors, and sound hardware for the tutorials. To create your own models, a method of capturing images is required: e.g. digital camera, scanner, or video capture board.

http://www.photomodeler.com

***3dfx Announces the Availability of Voodoo4 4500 PCI for Macintosh

(October 31)

3dfx Interactive has announced the availability of the Voodoo4 4500 PCI graphics board for Macintosh featuring fully integrated and accelerated 2D/3D rendering capability. Voodoo4 4500 PCI offers a design and publishing solution that delivers improved image quality. Utilizing a 350MHz RAMDAC for optimum 2D imaging, the Voodoo4 4500 PCI delivers resolutions as high as 2048x1536x32 bit with color and clarity. In addition, Voodoo4 4500 PCI can go beyond analog CRTs to deliver clean, edge-to-edge, creative workspace on clean, all-digital flat panels. Enhanced 2D acceleration yields responsiveness and is further tuned with integrated font and picture caching.

For $179.99 MSRP, the Voodoo4 4500 PCI uses a VSA-100 2D/3D graphics processing chip to deliver performance and rendering quality. Not to be outdone by its 2D capabilities, the Voodoo4 4500 PCI also delivers improved Macintosh 3D performance. Boasting a fill rate of 333 Megapixels per second, the Voodoo4 4500 can render vivid, real-time 3D environments in true 32-bit color. Together with 32mb of high-speed graphics memory and QuickTime multimedia support, the Voodoo4 4500 is a high-speed graphics solution.

3dfx offers full support for Glide, QuickDraw 3D and Apple OpenGL, ensuring compatibility with an array of Macintosh 3D titles. The Voodoo4 4500 AGP will be available in Europe and Asia in the coming weeks.

http://www.3dfx.com

***ATI announces Mobility M4 AGP 4X Graphics Component for Notebooks

(October 30)

ATI Technologies announced Mobility M4, an AGP 4X graphics component for the mobile platform. Mobility M4 will deliver 3D realism with both commercial and consumer applications on the notebook PC. It has already achieved its first design win, with the recently announced Dell Inspiron 8000 notebook PC.

http://www.ati.com

2054.4 Semiconductor

***Path 1 Acquires Silicon Design Firm to Expand High-Bandwidth Video Networking

(October 30)

Path 1 Network Technologies announced the acquisition of the assets of Metar ADC, an integrated circuit design company specializing in high-speed network communications devices. Included in the purchase is the Metar ADC line of switch, interface and Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) designs, as well as the company's ASIC engineering team. The transaction is valued at US$2 million plus performance incentives, if all goals and milestones are met over the next 36 months.

TrueCircuit, Path 1's quality of service (QoS) technology, combined with Metar ADC's core designs will enable e-Cinema, Video-On-Demand, videoconferencing, surveillance and other video services over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Incorporating TrueCircuit into MAC chips will strengthen Path 1's ability to improve performance at lower prices for a range of high-bandwidth video and multimedia services.

Path 1's TrueCircuit is a technology that sets-up and tears-down protected virtual channels within an IP network or Ethernet LAN for satisfying the needs of real-time applications such as telephony and interactive video. TrueCircuit technology is backward compatible with existing Ethernet and IP protocols, and can link IP networks to ATM networks.

Path 1 plans to integrate TrueCircuit technology into ASICs in order to make it available to a broad range of existing systems, including IP networks. Implementing TrueCircuit technology on an ASIC would allow the technology to migrate from the broadcast studio all the way through the telecommunications infrastructure and into the home and office. Path 1 also intends to license specific subsets of its ASIC core designs.

In addition to a 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC design, Path 1 has acquired Metar ADC's 10/100 MAC, Gigabit MAC, 10/100/1000 MAC, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit switches. Path 1 also has acquired Metar ADC's expertise in queue management (dynamic/static) with adaptive resource control and QoS scheduler, fast and deep search engines, full VLAN implementation and non-blocking switch architectures for L2/L3 switching as well as its simulation test-benches (PLI) for all its MAC products, switches, buffer management, VLAN and CPU access.

http://www.Path1.net

http://www.MetarADC.com

***Micron Technology Announces SyncFlash Memory Product Samples

(October 31)

Micron Technology has announced commercial sample availability of a SyncFlash memory product, a 64 Mbit device with 100MHz SDRAM read speeds. SyncFlash memory is an architecture for future high-speed execute-in-place and embedded applications, targeting next generation communication and consumer devices.

Last year, Micron introduced SyncFlash technology, integrating the benefits of non-volatile storage technology with industry-standard SDRAM architectures. Now, SDRAM and SyncFlash memory may reside on the same bus and execute from a single SDRAM memory controller. This simplifies system busing, eliminating a local bus and the additional pins needed for a separate flash-only memory interface, increasing flash READ performance to SDRAM speeds, and complementing SDRAM in systems where SyncFlash memory is preloaded for execute-in-place applications.

Manufactured on Micron's advanced process technology, the 64 Mbit SyncFlash device is organized in a 1Meg x 16 x 4 bank configuration. SyncFlash device's four-bank architecture supports simultaneous read and write operation. The 64Mbit SyncFlash device has 100MHz SDRAM read speed performance, with SDRAM compatible interface allowing it to reside on the main memory bus. Micron's specifications for SyncFlash memory components adhere to JEDEC standards for packaging and pinout.

Micron's 64 Mbit SyncFlash device is available in sample quantities in 54-pin TSOP packaging with production volumes expected in the first half of 2001. In conjunction with sample availability, Micron is releasing SyncFlash data sheets and application notes. These technical notes along with additional information on SyncFlash memory technology and products.

http://www.syncflash.com

http://www.micron.com

***UMC Unveils Chipsizer, Online Tool Estimates Die Size and Silicon Cost

(October 31)

UMC, a semiconductor foundry, introduced Chipsizer, a publicly available online tool that allows designers and design managers to estimate die size and silicon cost early in the product definition phase. Chipsizer is a product of nTool, a Silicon Valley company.

Chipsizer enables users to create a graphical display of their chip by selecting from a menu of library and IP elements (such as memory blocks input and output buffers, microprocessor cores, soft cores, and PLLs) from UMC's Gold IP catalog and entering other design information, such as the number of random logic gates, customer-specific macros, and pad types. Chipsizer then generates a display of the chip and estimated die size within the browser window. The tool can also estimate gross die per wafer, net die wafer, and die price when the user enters projected defect density and wafer cost.

Chipsizer allows users to add features into their design and see how they affect the die size. For I/O limited designs, users can change the pad pitch or replace inline I/Os with staggered I/O to see if that will reduce the die size. Users can add a layer of metal and see if the added wafer cost will be offset by the improved routing density and therefore require a smaller die size. In addition, users can migrate a design from 0.18-micron to 0.15-micron technology to determine the affect on die size and cost.

http://www.umc.com

2054.5 Information Appliances and Wireless

***Compaq, MSN Unveil Compaq iPAQ Internet Access Device

(October 30)

According to BridgeNews Bulletins, Compaq Computer and MSN have unveiled Compaq iPAQ Home Internet Appliance IA-2 in RadioShack stores. The IA-2 is part of Compaq's iPAQ line of Internet access devices, designed for novice Web users. The companies will offer the iPAQ IA-2 for $499 and will offer users rebates including a $400 rebate from MSN with a three-year subscription to MSN Internet Access at a monthly rate of $21.95 and a $100 rebate from Compaq.

This device is the second MSN Companion to be delivered by Compaq within the past 3 months. The IA-2 differs from the IA-1 by featuring a 15-inch color CRT monitor with 800 x 600 pixels of resolution, two built-in speakers, and an Internet keyboard and scroll mouse.

Like its counterpart, the IA-2 will use MSN Companion to connect users to the Internet and a simplified interface which will include MSN content including MSN Hotmail, eShop and search and messenger service. Both devices also include a 56k modem and LEDS for power and options including a specially configured Epson 740 or 777 Ink-jet color printer and JBL Platinum Series stereo speakers.

http://www.compaq.com/athome/internetdevices/IA-2

***Sun Unveils Dedicated Wireless Organization, Communications Software and $100 Million Venture Funding for the Wireless Market

(October 30)

Sun Microsystems has unveiled the strategy, products, programs and services designed to leverage its expertise in the wired world of the Internet into the wireless Web infrastructure. Highlights of Sun's announcement included:

A dedicated business unit, Wireless Excellence Center, two service practices and more than 50 partner participants in the iForce Wireless initiative;

$100 million of venture funding in wireless companies;

A communications software platform with calendar and messaging applications and a go-to-market program for service providers from iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape Alliance;

Increased adoption of Java technology for mobile devices by standards bodies;

A preview of technology in Sun's carrier-grade server platform targeting third-generation wireless networks and continued momentum behind the company's SunTone Certification and Branding program.

Sun's four-part strategy for wireless provides a foundation that is designed to allow customers to deliver wireless services, fosters a community of partners, delivers a scalable, carrier-grade, quality computing platform and drives open standards to future-proof wireless networks.

http://www.sun.com/iforce/wireless

http://www.son.com/suntone

2054.6 Communications

***Crystal Communications Processor From Cirrus Logic Targets VoIP Telephones and Internet Communications

(October 31)

Cirrus Logic, a provider of embedded Ethernet for residential gateways, announced the CS89712 System On Chip (SOC) for Internet communications devices. The CS89712 combines a low power, high-performance 74MHz ARM720TDMI Core with 10Mbps Ethernet connectivity (MAC and PHY) and an array of peripherals.

The CS89712 simplifies the design and reduces the total system cost of Internet communication systems including H.323 and SIP based VoIP telephones and other communications appliances. The built-in Memory Management Unit (MMU), 8K-bytes of cache, and 48K of SRAM make the CS89712 ideal for customers wishing to incorporate Open Source operating systems, such as Linux, or the commercially available single source solution comprised of the real time operating system ThreadX from Express Logic and debugging tools from Green Hills Software. Tool support is also available from ARM Ltd. and others.

Minimizing the need for external logic in system implementations, the CS89712 incorporates the following suite of system peripherals:

-- SDRAM/Flash/SRAM/ROM controller -- 10Mb Ethernet MAC & PHY

-- LCD controller -- MMU

-- Two UARTs -- 48K of SRAM

-- Infrared Interface -- On chip boot ROM

-- 8Kbytes of Cache -- Real-Time Clock

With its built-in peripherals, the CS89712 requires few additional components to provide a complete communications system. To aid developers with product design, the chip also offers embedded in-circuit emulation (ICE) and silicon debug support via a JTAG port.

The CS89712 is available in a 256-lead PBGA package and is priced at $27.00 in 10k quantities. Samples and Evaluation boards are available in December.

http://www.cirrus.com

2054.7 Technology

***FirewireDirect.com Announces the Availability of FireWire Card Readers

(October 26)

FirewireDirect.com, a company specializing in IEEE 1394, FireWire and iLINK peripherals and accessories for Windows, Macintosh and Linux based computers, has extended their dedication to FireWire technology, announcing the availability of a line of FireWire Card Readers. The FireReader products offer a solution for bridging the gap between a desktop PC and flash compatible devices like digital cameras.

The FireReader line includes the FireReader (CF) Compact Flash Card Reader, the FireReader (SM) Smart Media Card Reader, both available now, and the FireReader (MS) Sony Memory Stick Reader available in late November. Specifically designed for use with digital cameras, PDAs and MP3 players, they will enable users to transfer data to and from Flash compatible media, including desktop and portable, Palmtop PCs, Handheld PCs, PDAs and other (OHCI) FireWire / iLINK compliant multimedia devices.

FirewireDirect is also presenting on their web site a online tutorial for users of FireWire digital video, including video lessons published online with QuickTime, and printable tips. Accessible free of charge to anyone with an interest in creating digital video clips with FireWire equipment, it is provided as a tool to further introduce and enhance the FireWire Digital Video experience.

http://www.firewiredirect.com

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