[10842] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re: Two-way Internet service from Continental
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Walker)
Sat Mar 12 01:42:03 1994
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 21:10:39 CST
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: walkerl@iscmed.med.ge.com (Larry Walker)
>From: "Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason" <jmm@merit.edu>
>To: merit.com-priv@merit.edu
>Subject: Two-way Internet service from Continental Cable?
>
>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).
Well I read the press release _VERY_ closely for exactly this issue. Way
down near the bottom, it mentioned connecting back to the cable headend via
modem, so I took it that this was just "Stealth Asymmetry": say it quietly
and late in the article and maybe nobody will notice...
>What is Continental
>doing differently that enables them to offer symmetric service?
"All" a company has to do, as I understand it, is to replace all their
existing distribution amps with 2-way amps: Simple matter of money :-)
Larry
Larry Walker
System Architect email: walkerl@med.ge.com
GE Medical Systems phone: 414.785.8262
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