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Cable Television Technology Deployment
Cable Television Technology Deployment
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This discussion lays Me foundation forge subsequent consideration of the trends, projections, and barriers to the deployment of new services over that advanced cable architecture. TRENDS IN CABLE TELEVISION NETWORK DEPLOYMENT New technological developments within the cable industry are transfonn~ng the existing cable architecture into a state-of-the-art, interactive conduit for the NIT.
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The expansion of cable's role in the NIT requires building on the foundation that was laid over the last 20 years. The Role of Fiber Optics The cable industry has been upgrading its coaxial cable infi0ructure into a hybrid fiber optic/coax~al cable (HFC)
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The cable industry's innovative work with digital television was spearheaded by CableLabs' 1991 efforts with General Instrument Corporation and Scientific-Atianta to form a cable digital transmission consortium, which emphasized cable's leadership role in the creation of digital transmission technology. CableLabs has worked with the industry to foster convergence of digital coding and transmission for cable industry application, to provide technical support for the cable industry's work with the consumer, computer, home electronics, and entertainment software industries, and to cultivate awareness of digital compression technology.
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Although lapan's NHK-MUSE analog solution was favored owing to its early deployment In Japan, cable industry-led efforts proved that a digital solution was a better choice for reasons of flexibility and efficiency. Since that time, cable industry representatives have worked with the FCC's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Services to develop an industry digital compression standard.
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The telephone companies' state-regulated monopoly over local telephone service is a primary hindrance In the development of a competitive telecommunications marketplace. Moreover, the rate reregulation mandated by the Cable Act of 1992 has amounted to a loss of $2 billion in cable industry revenue through 1994.
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This equipment would enable cable operators to provide telephone service to residential and business customers over cable television hybrid fiber/coax networks. The RFP has focused vendors on devising affordable answers to issues of reliability and bandwidth management of multiple services over the same E3FC network.
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This technology is compatible with existing cable network architectures. Using m~crocelis that transfer a user's call from one cell to another as the user travels, PCS uses the cable industry's fiber optic backbone and feeder plant to interconnect the cells, and thus cable has a built-in advantage over other potential providers by virtue of an existing infrastructure.
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This option was recently offered to Continental Cablevision customers in Cambridge, Mass., In a joint project with Performance Systems International, Inc. Subscribers receive Internet access for a monthly fee through a cable converter box that does not interfere with cable television service and works at speeds hundreds oft~mes faster Can telephone modem calls.
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Cablecommuting The cable industry's HTC infrastructure has the potential to increase the already popular notion of working from home via the information superhighway. Approximately ~ million Americans already work through some form oftelecommut~ng, and cable's high-volume, high-speed broadband technology Van} allow millions more to "commute" to work through cable.
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TRENDS IN THE DEPLOYMENT OF INTERACTIVE TELEVISION The convergence of telecommunications and computer technology is transforming American society. In the cable industry, the convergence of cable's high-speed transmission capability and computer hardware and software intelligence is not only enabling cable to deliver telephony and high-speed data services, but is creating new opportunities in entirely new forms of entertainment, education, health care, and many other areas.
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The students monitor climate change, pollution, and ultraviolet radiation and share their data among themselves and with scientists to gain a global perspective on the environment. As part of its effort to expand reaming opportunities through the use of cable technology, the cable industry has initiated a nonprofit program to provide schools wad basic cable service, commercial-free educational prog~mrrung, and teacher support materials.
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Multiplayer games are also a possibility across full service networks such as Time Warner's Orlando system. Health Care The cable industry's bndge to the information superhighway has important consequences for new developments in health care.
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CONCLUSION Cable television companies operate a highly evolved platform capable of delivering a variety of telecommunications and information services. Additional technology components that wail enable particular services contemplated for the national information infi~s~ucture to non over that platform appear to be coming on stream at reasonable time frames and cost levels.
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The cable industry plans to spend $28 billion over the next 10 years on plant and equipment upgrades (according to Paul Kagan Associates)
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The cable industry is seeking to safeguard competition by careful removal of regulatory restrictions. The cable industry is supporting telecommunications reform proposals currently before Congress.
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