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The Role of Cable Television in the NII
The Role of Cable Television in the NII
Pages 26-30
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This federally imposed burden, which undermines our f Uncial capabilities, is coupled with other levels of regulation and barriers to the provision of communication sentences posed by state regulators and local franchise authorities. When these restrictions are linked with such problems as denial of switch interconnection access and usurious pole attachments and duct rental contract provisions by potentially competitive local exchange carriers, it becomes clear that the most capable and flexible network available today can contribute its full resources to the achievement of a national information infiastructure/gIobal information infrastructure (NIVGIT)
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Cable Television Laboratories, an industry R&D consortium, is working with a group of broadband equipment manufacturers to develop an open standard that is called the Spectrum Management Application, to allow the coexistence ofthese multiple networks and the maximization of the efficiency with which the radio frequency spectrum within the transmission plant is used. In Time Warner's upgraded plant, for example, there are plans for the coexistence, and separate operation, of networks that wail continue the broadcast of scores of analog TV channels and wall begin the delivery of high~uality digital telephone service, the provision of high-speed personal computer interconnection service, and access to a wide range of interactive video services.
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~ summary, the existence of a ubiquitous broadband cable television system in this country affords an almost unique opportunity to see the rapid realization of a series of extremely powerful digital networks. Some can offer competition to the existing telecommunications monopolies; some can interconnect computers and computer-based interactive television tennis In ways that can lead to an explosion of new and highly innovative services.
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If this is divided by the 40 peak users to be fed from a fiber node, this yields 1.75 megabits/second available to each user. This is more than sufficient for telecommunications, including video telephony, and is sufficient as well for easily foreseen applications in PC network and interactive multimedia services.
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We specifically address these points in our paper. To reiterate, they are: · The elimination of historic state and local barriers to competition in telecommunications; · The creation of requirements for interconnection, access, compensation, unbundling, collocation, pole and conduit sharing, and number portability and dialing parity by the incumbent telephony monopoly; · The prevention of interference by local authority in the growth of competing telecommunications services; and · The recognition that to enhance telephone competition, debilitating cable rate regulation must be reformed.
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