All, are you still there?
Can someone tell me if the GI platform mentioned in this article (below) is the same one that uses VDSL from the pedestal? The Next Level architecture that Tom Eames was putting in place in Boston, in other words.
Thanks, Frank C.
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Cisco gains on home network pacts
By Melanie Farmer, Jan 7, 1999
SAN JOSE, Calif. (CBS.MW) -- Cisco Systems shares edged higher Thursday after the computer networking giant announced a series of pacts that will focus on the market for home networking, voice, video and data services.
E-Tech, a manufacturer of communications equipment, will provide Cisco (CSCO) cable modems that have voice-integration components.
The new "voice-enabled cable modems" will provide voice-data and Internet services into a consumer's home. See press release.
In addition, Cisco and communications-equipment maker General Instrument Corp.(GIC) said they'll work with AT&T to develop an Internet telephony system that would allow AT&T (T) to offer its customers the ability to watch TV, send and receive faxes, surf the Net and talk on the telephone simultaneously.
"By combining broadband Internet, phone and video services over a single cable line, we are taking a major step towards implementing future integrated data, voice and video telecommunications on a mass market scale," Cisco Chief Executive John Chambers said in a In a press release
Shares of Cisco advanced 3 9/16 to 103 5/16. General Instrument shares rose 7/8 to 37 13/16. AT&T shares slipped 3/16 to 82 11/16. |
