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To: JW@KSC who wrote (30693)	3/26/1998 5:04:00 PM
From: pat mudge	Respond to of 31386

Wonder what the price range is???? <g> <<<High-Tech Condos Ready To Open In Vancouver Newsbytes - March 26, 1998 13:36 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, 1998 MAR 26 (NB) -- By Grant Buckler, Newsbytes. Occupants of the Residence on Georgia, a 493-unit condominium complex that will hold its grand opening this weekend, will have high-speed Internet access, an in-building intranet, video and audio on demand, and other high-technology services thanks to a building-wide network they will use through their television sets. Richard Millson, whose company Millson Multimedia Inc. acted as technology integration consultants to developer Westbank Projects Corp., told Newsbytes the building has a T1 link to the Internet and a total of 96 inputs to its internal network. An in-building intranet provides a range of information such as theater and restaurant listings, a residents' newsletter, access to online banking, and maps of nearby jogging routes, he said. There are eight CD-quality music channels, and 40 hours of digitized video available on demand. Residents can also call up images from eight of the building's security cameras on their television sets. All of this is accessible through a set-top box and a wireless keyboard that works with the television set. The Internet and intranet access will not work with a personal computer, though, and will not allow file downloading or printing. Millson said this compromise was necessary to avoid overloading the network. However, he added, each unit in the Residence on Georgia is equipped with wiring for integrated services digital network (ISDN), asynchronous digital subscriber line (ADSL), and cable modem connections, and all these services are either already available or currently being rolled out in Vancouver. The video on demand technology is Lucent Technologies Inc.'s CineBlitz media server technology coupled with the Safari Video Network Switch from Safari Technologies of Otsego, Mich. Nagan Raman, vice-president of sales for CineBlitz at Lucent, told Newsbytes this will be only the second installation of CineBlitz -- the first was at Kansas State University in January. CineBlitz stores video in high- resolution MPEG-2 format and the installation uses Lucent technology to convert this to NTSC analog video for delivery over twisted-pair wiring to the suites. Michael Bernard, a spokesman for Westbank Projects, said the project has been two years in construction and is the biggest single-phase residential construction in Canada to date. The suites will sell for C$139,000 to about C$500,000, he said. Some of the suites will also be used as extended-stay hotel suites. >>>

To: JW@KSC who wrote (30693)	3/27/1998 12:05:00 PM
From: NYBellBoy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31386

Jim & Amati fans - re <There may be partnerships with U.S. utilities as soon as the end of the year, the developers said. A new company has been formed to promote the technology developed by communications technology vendor Nortel and British utility Norweb. The company, called Nor.Web, is owned 50 percent by each partner. Nor.Web has already signed up 10 utility companies, mainly in Europe, to deploy its Digital Power Line service. "Suffice to say, we are actively working with U.S. companies," said Steve Pusey, CEO of Nor.Web. "We'll come back later in the year and talk more about that." This was the subject of a Financial Management Video Network Information Technology segment last month. They showed equipment that will cut down interference. Looked like present telco equipment, just built stronger. :) BellBoy