[10829] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Two-way Internet service from Continental Cable?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles R Fidelman)
Fri Mar 11 13:37:22 1994
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 09:18:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@civicnet.org>
To: "Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason" <jmm@merit.edu>
Cc: merit.com-priv@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199403102021.PAA10525@merit.edu>
On Thu, 10 Mar 1994, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason wrote:
> There was an article a day or so ago in the NYT stating that
> Continental Cable had announced it was beginning to offer Internet
> connections over its coax cable lines in Cambridge, MA. I was struck
> by the claim that the service would be two-way symmetric, that is both
> incoming and outgoing traffic over the cable. In the past I'd only
> heard of asymmetric cable connections: incoming over the coax,
> outgoing over the twisted pair (phone line). What is Continental
> doing differently that enables them to offer symmetric service?
>
Two-way amplifiers on the cable. It lets them do essentially ethernet
over cable.
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