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Marcus FiberLink Completes Nation's Largest ATM/MPEG-2 Video Distance Network 32 Sites Connected Throughout the State of Wisconsin
PR Newswire - July 23, 1998 13:05
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/ADVANCE/MADISON, Wis., July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Marcus FiberLink officials announced today that they have formally completed the largest distance learning network to be constructed in the United States. The KSCADE(K-12 Schools/College Alliance for Distance Education) network connects 32 Wisconsin schools impacting 70,000 students. Officials credit the unique partnership of several of the country's leading communications companies for their technologies in completing the network: AG Communication Systems, Anixter Inc., FORE Systems (Nasdaq: FORE), Midwest Visual, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), and Marcus Cable.
KSCADE, a $6 million state-of-the-art distance learning network, provides full-motion video and data access to the Internet at all locations. In all, the 230-mile network includes three higher education facilities and 29 public schools. The network was first launched to 14 sites in January 1998.
"KSCADE is arguably the most technologically advanced distance education network in existence," said Greg Joseph, President of the KSCADE consortium. "What sets this network apart from all other distance networks is its technology and capacity. Marcus FiberLink provided digital technology that met all of the future operational standards that we required. The capacity, quality, and speed of the digital network far exceeded our expectations and other competitive offerings." Joseph stated that the network employs international standards providing each school access to the Internet at speeds 300 times faster than dial-up modems.
The digital video is transported across the backbone network using a transfer method called Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). ATM is extremely fast, and provides a high-speed "pipe" into each member site to allow the services provided by the network to be easily expanded.
The video is transported across the ATM network in a digital format, encoded by an international standard encryption scheme known as MPEG-2 (Motion Picture Experts Group). MPEG-2 is digital video, and complies with the latest world wide video standards.
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