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To: VINTHO who wrote (45317)	9/23/1999 6:38:00 PM
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Divi customer, US West................... www2.digitalbroadcasting.com{C9A308E1-70F6-11D3-9A64-00A0C9C83AFB}&Bucket=HomeLatestHeadlines U S West Launches High Bandwidth HDTV Transport Service 9/23/99 By Tom Butts U S West (Denver) has unveiled HDTV-Net, a video service that the company says promises to deliver uncompressed HD video over a fiber-based network. The one-way, point-to-point video transport service is targeted at network and local television broadcasters, post production houses, and businesses that need to transmit high definition video from remote locations. U S West customers are primarily in the mid-west and western US. The company is responding to the expected demand for such services when TV stations in markets 10-30 are required to go digital by November 1, 1999. Those markets include Denver; Phoenix; Portland, OR; Seattle; and Minneapolis. The telecom provider uses equipment from ADC to transmit compressed HD video at 270 Mbps, which it attains by doubling its slots on TV1 circuits. Each slot on the DV6000, a fiber-based video transport system supplied by ADC offers 155 Mbps?U S West uses two slots to accommodate the demands for high definition video. ?We have an existing network of ADC equipment that has the capability of putting together a 270 Mbps signal that takes up two slots instead of one,? says Bill Barrons, product manager for U S West. ?It?s the capacity of two OC-3 lines.? U S West conducted field trials of the service with Seattle?s KIRO-TV, which broadcast a community fair in HD in August.