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MultiPath brings new service to town
March 15, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsMultiPath Access is bringing high-speed wireless Internet access to residents in the Baltimore, Md. and Washington areas. MultiPath deploys a combination of fiber-optic and copper backbones with fixed wireless extensions to deliver signal over the last-mile to commercial and residential users. The company is targeting ISPs, CLECs and MDU owners.
New product for the SOHO
March 15, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsAllied Telesyn has created a tool for the small-office home-office environment: the AR240E and AR250E ADSL bridge router. The two products combine connection flexibility and security for shared high-speed connections and always-on convenience. Combining the functions of an IP router and an ADSL modem into one unit makes for an efficient design with features useful for the SOHO environment.
Excellent new center for Wave7
March 15, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsOptical networking start-up Wave7 Optics has some new digs. The company is opening the ASIC/FPGA Center of Excellence in Tampa, Fla. The center is aimed at developing field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) for key components of the Wave7 Optics product suite, including IP packet engines that combine with off-the-shelf switching devices to creat...
Agilent's Mr. Fix-it device
March 15, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsThe next time your network goes out right in the middle of March Madness, you won't have to wonder just where the heck the problem is. Agilent has developed the installer's new best friend, the Fiber Break Locator, a handheld device to locate faults in fiber-optic networks. The Fiber Break Locator lets maintenance technicians view the optical distance to a break, up to 94 miles away, locate hig...
Aliant allies with Pace
March 14, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsCanadian company Aliant Telecom has paired up with Pace Micro Technology to provide an initial 5,000 Pace DSL4000 digital home gateways for its VibeVision digital television service. Aliant Telecom's VibeVision service uses asymmetrical digital subscriber line technology (ADSL). When it is combined with Pace's DSL4000, it provides customers digital color and sound, local radio stations, Galaxy ...
Eveo for the Web
March 14, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsSounds like the newest Pokemon creation. Actually, Web video company Eveo is unveiling EveoPublisher, the company's latest addition to the Eveo Video Platform, an integrated tool suite for building and managing video-enabled Web sites. EveoPublisher is a scalable XML-based video publishing application that helps businesses to incorporate video into their Internet and Intranet sites.
CNBC Europe fishes out SeaChange
March 14, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsCNBC Europe has reeled in SeaChange International 's Broadcast MediaCluster video server system for its advertising and long-form video delivery. The MPEG-2 multichannel Broadcast MediaCluster is engineered for flexibility, and provides television operators with the ability to integrate solutions for archiving, automation, editing and other broadcast components.
And how does it perform in an earthquake?
March 14, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsNearly a dozen Alpha Powernodes located about 30 miles from the epicenter of the recent Pacific Northwest earthquake survived undamaged and fully operational, according to the company. Alpha attributes the Powernodes coming through intact to the sturdy design of both its power electronics and enclosure systems.
How do customers really feel about digital TV?
March 13, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsA new survey launching this month intends to find out. Digital TV VII: A Survey Of Consumers in Digital Cable Markets, a telephone survey, is the seventh in a series produced by Horowitz Associates and S. Liebmann and Associates. It will be conducted among 800 cable subscribers in markets where digital cable service is currently being marketed.
ResiLink rides into Massachusetts
March 13, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsRCN is launching its bundled ResiLink services in Wakefield, Mass., offering subscribers a choice for their phone, cable, and high-speed Internet services. ResiLink offers various combinations of RCN phone, cable and high-speed Internet services for a flat rate. These services are delivered over RCN's Megaband Network.
New networking router available
March 13, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsLinksys, a broadband, wireless and networking hardware provider, says its HomeLink Phoneline 10M Cable/DSL Router is now available. According to the company, this is the first-of-its-kind solution and allows Ethernet-based computers and HomePNA certified phone-based computers and devices to network with each other as if on the same network.
NEC and Thomson combining plasma display businesses
March 13, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsNEC Corporation and Thomson Multimedia intend to combine each company's plasma display technologies. The plasma displays consist of display panes, modules and monitors. The companies are pinning their plans of an equal worldwide research and development, sales and manufacturing joint venture on a memo of understanding.
Concurrent pairs with Federal Hill Communications
March 12, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsLooking for content for its international customers, Concurrent Computer has formed a strategic partnership with Federal Hill Communications, a digital content provider for worldwide VOD delivery. Federal Hill has agreed to negotiate and license Hollywood movies and ancillary entertainment content on behalf of Concurrent's clients.
Lining up for digital TV in New Mexico
March 12, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsThose famous desert sunsets apparently aren't enough entertainment in New Mexico anymore. People are lining up to get their digital television since WSNet, a provider of direct-to-home digital video programming, has paired with Socorro Satellite Systems. "We have had an overwhelming response to WSNet's digital service," Marilyn Madrid, head of cable services for Socorro, said in a statement.
Gotuit and Motorola get to it
March 11, 2001 7:00 pm | by Karen Kessler-Tanaka | CommentsGotuit Media Corp., a provider of hardware and software systems that allow users to customize radio and TV content, has paired with Motorola's Broadband Communications Sector. The two companies have agreed to support the integration of Gotuit Media's personalized video product, Gotuit TV, into Motorola's DCT-5000 interactive digital set-top terminal.
