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Reports on broadband wireless data communications, Internet telephony, and the open source movement. Discussion of Wi-Fi, or wireless fidelity, the brand name for standardized (802.11b) wireless data signal; Mention of Cometa Networks in the United States; Details of the business model of Spotnick Mobile, which was cofounded by Murray McCaig and Mark Wolinsky in Ontario; Competition in the public-access market over Wi-Fi; Functions of Linux, a free computer operating system, which was implemented at Canadian National Railway by senior systems programmer, Don Lafontaine; Issues of the lack of applications and technical support for Linux; Discussion of the pros and cons of IP telephony, or voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP; Outlook for the IP telephony enterprise equipment industry; Popular uses of VoIP, including call-center routing.

The XLNT Co. is shipping its first gigabit Ethernet buffered distributor/FDDI switch in Canada. The Millennium 4000 is the first model in XLNT's planned line of Gigabit Ethernet products. Available with four I/O slots, the available products include a four or eight-port full duplex Gigabit Ethernet buffered distributor and the two-port switched FDDI component. According to the company, the Millennium 4000's architecture addresses fault tolerance at the system port and network levels through the use of redundancy, system design and network signaling.