[664] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: cable-TV networking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ari Ollikainen)
Tue May 7 16:47:18 1991
Date: Tue, 7 May 91 11:58:19 PDT
From: ari@Mordor.Stanford.EDU (Ari Ollikainen)
To: com-priv@psi.com, tharenos@jessica.stanford.edu
Cc: brian@napa.telebit.COM
>We are working on a number of enhancements to the system as a result of
the pilot project.
Er...Let me guess that one of the "enhancements" will be to discard the
"9600 baud synchronous dial-up reverse channel" and figure out a
true two-way path using a reverse channel on the cable system.
For those of you who aren't up on the technology of broadband local area
networking, you might be interested to know that multichannel LANs
running at 128kb/sec - 4mb/sec were developed and sold by Sytek Inc
beginning in 1980. Sytek later became Hughes LAN Systems.
LocalNet was tested (and deployed) on various cable systems (COX Cable was
one of the major customers, I think...) with diameters as large as 30miles.
GE (first Intersil, then Industrial Electronics) developed and sold
broadband LANs for factory automation systems in the early '80s.
Ari@pohjola.NERSC.GOV
