[660] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: cable-TV networking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tharenos@jessica.stanford.edu)
Mon May 6 17:09:17 1991
To: com-priv@psi.com
Cc: brian@napa.telebit.COM
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 24 Apr 91 18:29:27 -0700.
Date: Mon, 06 May 91 13:55:27 -0700
From: tharenos@jessica.stanford.edu
Figured I should probably chime in here since I have been involved
with this project for over a year.
I'm not sure which company(ies) Brian was referring to in his
original note but I'm sure I know most of the players. My company implemented
the prototype for this type of system and did some testing of the
equipment here in the Bay Area. The system we produced runs at 1.544 Mbps
downstream on the CATV system and uses a 9600 bps synchronous dial-up reverse
channel to get the bits back to the "head-end". The system essentially
provides "Ethernet in your home" via CATV and the phone network. We ran a live
test on the San Jose CATV system between my house in South San Jose and Santa
Clara University. I had a couple of Xterminals running in my house with the
clients running on a RISC workstation at SCU. We have approached a number of
other CATV companies in the Bay Area for other field trails as well.
We are working on a number of enhancements to the system as a result of
the pilot project.
Cheers,
Michael
