Broadcast networks
ABC (WFTV-Channel 9): Peter Jennings anchors at 10 p.m. Monday-Wednesday; 9 p.m. Thursday.
CBS (WKMG-Channel 6): Dan Rather reports on 48 Hours, 10 p.m. Monday; 60 Minutes II, 10 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; 9 p.m. Thursday.
NBC (WESH-Channel 2): Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert anchor at 10 p.m. Wednesday; 9:30 p.m. Thursday.
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The burgeoning optical network is the basis for most compelling convergence services, and the recent Optical Fiber Conference witnessed the debut of a number of new products that promise elevated optical bandwidth.
Princeton Lightwave, for example, announced three new product families for use in either long-haul or metro-area networks—WaveHarp, WaveRider, and WavePower. Covering the entire S, [...]
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Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite providers such as Hughes Network Systems’ (DirecPC) and recent entrant StarBand have made two-way Internet-access via satellite a reality (see “Dishing it out“). But it’s been a somewhat sober reality, because the Ku-band satellite technology such systems employ is upstream-challenged. DirecPC requires a dial-up modem for its up-channel, and StarBand’s upstream is [...]
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While providing consumers with bundled video, data, and voice services has become a holy grail for cable-TV operators and telephone companies, traditional television broadcasters have not seen a clear road to entering this emerging marketplace. Despite the dawn of digital television (DTV), delivering Internet access and telephone service has remained technically beyond their horizons. A [...]
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During a recent interview, Wildblue Vice President and Marketing Manager Brad Greenwald outlined his company’s roadmap for rolling out broadband Internet access next year at speeds of up to 3 Mbits/sec, following the launch of Wildblue’s first Ka-band (20/30 GHz) satellite.
The interview took place just as the fledgling broadband satellite operator was announcing an agreement [...]
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If VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) is to be successful, it must offer reliability on a par with today’s PSTN (public switched telephone network). But how do you keep VoIP phones running during a power outage? One potential solution is known as power over LAN—using the LAN cable to carry sufficient power to drive the [...]
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Despite its PC-centric heritage, the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) taking place this week in San Jose is yielding a diverse set of technology and product announcements, ranging from power-miserly processors to new server architectures. Indeed, the educational sessions and the news mirror Intel’s four-pronged organization around the PC, Personal Client Architecture (PCA—primarily handheld devices such [...]
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IBM’s PowerNP network processor offering made the news in our last email two weeks back, and supporters of the architecture continue to emerge. Noted embedded operating system vendor Wind River Systems has just partnered with IBM to provide network equipment vendors with a PowerNP-based software package that supports advanced routing and switching applications. Based on [...]
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While SS7 serves as the signaling protocol for the PSTN (public switched telephone network), and softswitches provide the signaling connectivity between that circuit-switched network and emerging IP-based voice networks, there are bound to be scalability and reliability challenges as VoIP (voice over IP) becomes increasingly pervasive. As service providers start to deploy VoIP in earnest, [...]
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Broadband service providers may have found a viable entrée into the voice market, one that meets consumer demand for quality communication at a reasonable cost. deltathree, an IP (Internet protocol) communications network and hosting service provider, has launched a new offering that allows users to centralize all their communications through a single broadband Internet connection. [...]
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