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Exhibit 23.1
 
               COMBINED INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT ON FINANCIAL
                         STATEMENT SCHEDULE AND CONSENT
 
The Board of Directors
Innova Corporation
 
     The audits referred to in our report dated February 3, 1998, included the
related consolidated financial statement schedule, as of December 31, 1996 and
1997, and for the year ended March 31, 1996, the nine month fiscal period ended
December 31, 1996, and the year ended December 31, 1997, included in the annual
report on Form 10-K of Innova Corporation. This consolidated financial statement
schedule is the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility
is to express an opinion on this consolidated financial statement schedule based
on our audits. In our opinion, such consolidated financial statement schedule,
when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken
as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth
therein.
 
     We consent to incorporation by reference in the registration statement (No.
333-34089) on Form S-8 of Innova Corporation of our report dated February 3, 
1998, relating to the consolidated balance sheets of Innova Corporation and 
subsidiary as of December 31, 1996 and 1997, and the related consolidated 
statements of operations, stockholders' equity (deficit), and cash flows for 
the year ended March 31, 1996, the nine month fiscal period ended December 31, 
1996, and the year ended December 31, 1997, and related financial statement 
schedule, which reports appear in the December 31, 1997, annual report on Form
10-K of Innova Corporation.
 
                                          /s/  KPMG PEAT MARWICK LLP
 
Seattle, Washington
March 31, 1998