[8819] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: One-way Internet?..no, it's "Asymetric"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin L. Schoffstall)
Mon Dec 6 00:31:25 1993
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 00:33:13 +0000
From: "Martin L. Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
To: smith@sfu.ca (Richard Smith)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Surely no one in the real "know" would have told you that.
PSI is committed to multiple technologies, one of the big mistakes that can
be made is to adopt one technology today, given the advances in RF datacomm
technology available in single digit months from a variety of vendors.
Marty
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> Subject: One-way Internet?..no, it's "Asymetric"
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> Related to my comments yesterday on the Hybrid Networks
> Inc./Tele-Communications Inc. 'cableTV' internet connection. I asked
> whether PSI's solution was also 'one-way'. (Hybrid's system isn't
> really one-way, but you receive at ethernet speeds and send at modem
> speeds by a telephone call). The word is that the PSI solution uses the
> same
> technology, possibly from the same company, Hybrid.
>
