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Technology Stocks : Concurrent Computer (CCUR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Goodboy who wrote (3657)	5/5/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: Nimbus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21143

CCUR server trials Goodboy, is it fair to say, in your opinion, that no serious orders (10-100's) will be placed for the CCUR/PRASARA/SFA-STB "system" until one of the cable companies runs trials of the "system" on one or more operational head-ends and with hundreds (if not thousands)of active MPEG2 streams into real customer homes ? Comcast is doing this with SFA/SEAC, so it should be expected with CCUR at some point. In the lab it's hard to create and test many streams, and at a show only a few streams are able to be demo'ed, so I am curious on your read on how and when this "system" gets rung out well enough to draw heavy cable-co orders and support. I do know that the DIVA system suffered serious growing pains as they brought more interactive users online in their trials. Timing bugs come to the surface relating to the hundreds of miles of cable the signals have to traverse. Another problem was abrupt signal drop-outs to the homes (how to recover without disrupting anyone else's service/stream), and how to strip new "live content" (like the 6pm news)onto the array while the system is heavy serving users. Any thoughts or talk you've heard on this? Thanks.