Move to liberalize U.S. high-tech exports gains

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Congress and the Clinton administration are moving to remove restrictions on the export of advanced computer and telecommunications equipment to China, the former Soviet Union and one-time Eastern bloc countries. Regulations written in the interests of national security before the Berlin wall's 1989 fall are hindering US firms' ability to compete against Israeli and Taiwanese vendors for a share of the $30 billion China and $15 billion Russia plan to install fiber-optic telephone networks. Yet the FBI and NSA (National Security Agency) remain opposed to export liberalization, citing how difficult it can be to tap digital telephone lines. Connecticut Rep Sam Gejdenson presides over House subcommittee hearings on the issue of 17-nation Cocom's (Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls) export rules starting Sep 22, 1993. Majority leader Richard A. Gephardt and four other House members write Pres Clinton urging him to reform export controls by executive order.

Electronic computers, Computer industry, Economic aspects, Laws, regulations and rules, Science and technology policy, United States. Congress, Export controls, Activism, Political protest, United States. Executive Office of the President, Trends, Export, Policy, Government Regulation, Political Issue, Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls

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Northern Telecom has new way to aim fiber-optic beam

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Northern Telecom announces the development of a new transmission module that potentially reduces the cost of providing fiber optic communication to the consumer. The design is called the circular-grating surface emitting laser. Employing this design, researchers have been able to aim the lasers that carry information through the fiber optic cables much less precisely than the current modules require. By being able to align the laser within 10 to 20 microns, the equipment maker can produce a transmission module for much less than the current cost of $500. The problem with the technology, admit Northern Telecom representatives, is that it results in a low coupling efficiency. Coupling efficiency is a measurement of how much light, and the information it transmits, gets through to the user.

Product development, Equipment and supplies, Telecommunications equipment, Fiber optics, Product introduction, Communications equipment, Efficiency, Cost of Communications, New Technique, Coupling, Northern Telecom Inc.

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From the voice-mail acorn, a still-spreading oak

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Voice mail is being used more frequently in offices all over the world because the price of computer chips has dropped significantly and the overall voice-mail technology has become much more refined. The small- and medium-sized voice-mail systems appear to be having the most growth, presumably due to becoming more affordable for the small- and medium-sized businesses that purchase them. Voice-mail machines are distinct from answering machines in that they can send and receive messages from various other subscribers on the system. More than 38,000 voice-mail systems are expected to ship in 1991, up from only about 7,000 in 1987.

Statistics, Growth (Physiology), Voice mail, Office automation, Growth

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