AT&T is buying two-way boxes..........................
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AT&T BIS Goes into Digital Reverse
October 26, 1999
Scientific-Atlanta said it won a contract to supply its bdr baseband digital reverse products to AT&T Broadband & Internet Services, giving the MSO a family of products that offers a increase in return- path capacity while capitalizing on efficiencies in the network to reduce costs.
AT&T BIS will deploy S-A's bdr baseband digital reverse products in "several key markets."
``As broadband users start to interact with more and more multimedia services, cable networks have to be able to carry several signals to each consumer-and back again. Scientific-Atlanta has the only IP-based, digital interactive network because we realized, early on, how important the reverse path would be to our customers,' said Paul Connolly, vice president of marketing and network architectures in Scientific-Atlanta's Transmission Network Systems sector.
``AT&T is committed to providing our customers with high-speed, always-on broadband service. A two-way, real-time network is crucial in today's dynamic marketplace, in order to keep businesses competitive,' said Tony Werner, Chief Technology Officer, AT&T BIS.
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