Narrative statement

0144-EX-PL-2001 Text Documents

Intel Corporation

2001-06-15ELS_46972

EXHIBIT NARRATIVE STATEMENT Intel Corporation (the “Applicant”) desires to test, for technical feasibility and customer acceptability purposes, an experimental 2.4 Hz band Home RF wireless LAN referred to as the Anypoint Networking Gateway 1300 (“Anypoint”). The Anypoint device is a wireless LAN product designed for home office applications such as remote Internet connections, video-on-demand, and audio and video streaming. The Anypoint device will function as a wireless hub to support multiple connected devices in the home or small office. It can be used as a gateway for Ethernet, 802.11b wireless or HPNA networks or as an access point in an 802.11b wireless network. The Anypoint device is intended for wireless connections in a home office. The test users will be evaluating the functional features of the device including its data rate, actual throughput and connectivity. Tests will include accessing the Internet, downloading and uploading data, viewing streaming media on client notebooks, and network/firewall security. The testing will be conducted indoors at distances of within 20 to 100 feet for both line of sight applications and with several walls in between. The Anypoint device includes a main controller board, an RF module, and an antenna. The RF module conforms to the FCC Part 15.247 rules for a 2.4 GHz direct sequence spread spectrum intentional radiator. The RF module has been tested and found to comply with FCC rules and is currently in use in other products on the market. However, the integrated device design is still in a prototype stage, has not been finalized for marketing and evaluation, and has not been tested for digital device compliance pursuant to Section 15.109 of the FCC’s rules. Final compliance with FCC Part 15 awaits a marketing evaluation to determine whether further development is needed and whether significant additional resource expenditures are warranted. After marketing studies have been completed, the product design will be finalized including all necessary shielding to eliminate the potential for harmful interference from the device. Following this, final Part 15 compliance testing will be performed. In order to complete Applicant’s product development and marketing programs for the Anypoint device, it is imperative that prototypes be evaluated in a home office environment. The test subjects selected by Applicant will be employees of telephone and cable companies working with Intel who will be trained in the use of the device and will understand that they are evaluating a prototype unit under an FCC experimental license. None of the experimental devices will be used by members of the general public. All of the test devices will be labeled “PROTYPE FOR EVALUATION PURPOSES ONLY – NOT FOR SALE.” Applicant hereby respectfully requests that it be granted experimental license authority to test fifty (50) of its Part 15 wireless Anypoint devices, with employees of selected

telecommunications firms located in various cities in the continental United States, for a period not to exceed six (6) months. Successful testing and development of this experimental device will contribute to the further development of radio art by allowing PC and workstation users to operate wireless low power data transmission systems that provide access to the Internet.


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