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Sept. 10, 1999 TODAY’S EDITION Electronic Spectrum available at http://fbox.vt.edu: SPECTRUM 10021/news/Spectrum. VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 22 NUMBER 3 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1999 University, Wavtrace announce successful LMDS tests By David Nutter day at a press conference held at the Virginia including rural locations, for tremendous eco- tium to provide research to accelerate this Virginia Tech, the only university in the Tech Museum of Natural History. The press nomic benefit. The university’s Center for developing industry. nation to own LMDS spectrum licenses, and conference was held by Congressman Rick Wireless Telecommunications, headed by “The advanced wireless network for Wavtrace, a pioneering developer of advanced Boucher, an advocate for the development of Charles Bostian, spearheaded the university’s internet access that is in place in Blacksburg LMDS equipment, have announced the suc- Internet infrastructure nationally and in Vir- involvement in LMDS research. The center has has the potential to resolve many of the tech- cessful operation of the Virginia Tech LMDS ginia, and included comments from Erv Blythe, been engaged in microwave and millimeter- nology and cost issues related to bringing network that was deployed just three months vice president of information systems at Vir- wave research for over 25 years. high-speed, multi-media telecommunications ago. ginia Tech, and Steven Warwick, vice presi- “LMDS technology is a great equalizer,” services ‘the last mile’ into homes and busi- The Virginia Tech LMDS (local multi- dent of product strategy at Wavtrace, the tech- Blythe said. “It provides a single broadband nesses, making the services truly affordable point distribution service) network delivers nology supplier. pipe for voice, data, and video in areas where to many for the first time,” Boucher said. wireless two-way, high-speed, data, voice Using the Wavtrace equipment, Virginia wireline and fiber solutions may not be eco- The transmission equipment used at and video traffic from a hub site on the Tech officials demonstrated the capabilities of nomically feasible, and we are committed to Virginia Tech is supplied by Wavtrace. It is Virginia Tech campus to three off-campus the new technology through the simultaneous making sure more communities have access to the first LMDS system in the world based on office buildings. The transition to LMDS wireless delivery of voice, data, and video its benefits.” time-division-duplexing (TDD) technology. was effortless and transparent to the users services. These services include analog voice Virginia Tech plans to share its experi- TDD allows transmit and receive functions who now have far greater bandwidth and from the campus PBX, and IP voice, Internet, ences to help other rural Virginia communities to occur on one channel, a process more speed. The deployment proves how wireless and videoconferencing from the campus implement this new technology to provide high- efficient than what is possible with the tradi- transport can eliminate the bottleneck be- Ethernet. bandwidth services for the support of advanced tional airlink technology, which requires two tween existing broadband networks and lo- The successful deployment of the LMDS applications such as distance learning, tele- channels, one for transmit and one for re- cal end users. network is the result of Virginia Tech’s early medicine, and videoconferencing. The univer- ceive. The benefits of a TDD-based LMDS The results of the trial and a live demon- recognition that new LMDS technology would sity and the Center for Wireless Telecommuni- system include more efficient use of band- stration of the service was presented Wednes- provide broadband access to more locations, cations formed an LMDS Research Consor- (See UNIVERSITY on 4) Virtual Jamestown project garnering honors for Shifflett By Sally Harris and Julie Kane Gentleman, of a wound given by the Savages, EDSITEment Project. around them. Students who can’t travel to the Short of traveling back in time, Virtual and was buried the eleventh day....The fourth EDSITEment is “the best of the humanities Library of Virginia or the Library of Congress Jamestown is about as close as a modern day of September died Thomas Jacob on the web,” a prominent humanities web for research can now have ready “access to person is going to get to life in that colonial Sergeant. The fift day, there died Benjamin site that serves as a gateway to the top our national treasures and documents,” Virginia fort. Beast. Our men were destroyed with cruell educational sites in the humanities for Shifflett said. Virtual Jamestown, a web site created diseases, as Swellings, Flixes, Burning students, teachers, and parents. Sites There are a dozen first-hand accounts, by Crandall Shifflett, professor of history Fevers, and by warres, and some departed chosen go through a rigorous merit including that of an indentured servant. and director of graduate studies for Virginia suddenly, but for the most part they died review process “aimed at finding Students can read the actual words of young Tech’s history department, is earning honors of meere famine. There were never web sites with outstanding Richard Frethorne to his parents back home: for bringing the realities of the early Englishmen left in a forreigne Countrey intellectual quality, superior “This is to let you understand that I you child Jamestown to life for students and teachers. in such miserie as wee were in the new design, and genuine educational am in a most heavy case by reason of the To students in a classroom, for example, discovered Virginia.” impact.” country, [which] is such that it causeth much it’s one thing to have a teacher say that x Suddenly the people and their stark Virtual Jamestown can sic kness, [such] as the scurvy and the bloody number of people died of starvation and existence form a vivid picture in the give students who cannot travel to flux and diverse other diseases, which maketh diseases in Colonial Jamestown. It’s another mind, and Virtual Jamestown is reap- the actual site a picture of the place the body very poor and weak. And when we to go on-line and read the words of Master ing rewards as a result. In addition to where our country began. On one are sick there is nothing to comfort us; for George Percy in 1607, about his first 90 days a $205,000 grant from the National web page, for example, they can click since I came out of the ship I never ate in the fort at Jamestown: “The sixt of August Endowment for the Humanities and drag on a photograph of the anything but peas, and loblollie (that is, water there died John Asbie of the bloudie Flixe. (NEH), “Virtual Jamestown: Natives reconstructed Jamestown, and it’s gruel).” The ninth day died George Flowre of the and Newcomers” has been selected as a top as if they are standing in the middle Students and other researchers can see swelling. The tenth day died William Bruster humanities site for inclusion as part of the NEH of the fort turning slowly to see all 360 degrees pictures of the stowage of a British slave ship, with slaves chained head to toe, side by side, the entire time of the long, agonizing journey across the sea. Only occasionally were they allowed on deck for sunshine and Pamplin Movie to be Filmed on Campus fresh air. Thousands died during the horrific By David Nutter financial and professional support for the During this time the front steps and lobby of “middle passage” and were thrown A film-production company making university, the College of Business was named Burruss will be closed off and pedestrians overboard, Shifflett said. a movie about the life of Robert Pamplin in their honor the Pamplin College of Business. will be asked to use the Visitors to the web site can see sketches Jr. will be on campus the week of In 1996, the Pamplin family funded the Pamplin side entrances to of the wedding of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, September 12 filming at various locations. Scholars Program that bestowed a $1000 the building. as well pictures of native foods and The Tyee Group will film a movie scholarship to one student at every public high The Blacksburg earthenware. They can read histories and based on the Pamplin family biography, school in Virginia. Transit bus trace the timeline of events in the New World. Heritage: The Making of an American The actors and crew will arrive Sunday, stops will also Eventually, when the project-in- Family, from Sunday, Sept. 12, until Sept. 12. All of the crew members will be be moved to in progress is completed, they can search Sunday, Sept. 19 The biography was wearing badges while working on campus. front of Williams references to answer questions such as the written by Robert Pamplin Jr. A large Corbin Bernsen, who starred in the television for both Monday number of times the word “savage” was used portion of the film is based on Pamplin’s series, L.A. Law, is slated to play Robert morning and or the words “bloody flux” appeared, and the first year as a cadet at Virginia Tech in Pamplin Sr. Thursday afternoon. site will search the text database of first-hand 1961. Filming will be done throughout the week The majority of accounts for the answer. Eventually, too, The Pamplin family has had a long at various locations around campus. Tentative the action will take another data base will contain the name of history of support for Virginia Tech. plans call for shooting a scene in front of place on the Upper every indentured servant, the name of his Robert Pamplin Sr. graduated from Burruss Hall on Monday morning, Sept.
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