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To: Mkilloran who wrote (2778)	9/8/1998 9:40:00 PM
From: Hiram Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

MKilloran, ADSL doesn't work,and never will,plus its set up alot like Ethernet,first come first serve,and with EDSEL no one is served. If you were getting food from the line,you would look Biafran. ATHM ditty about Streaming Media. Such developments have many implications for cable providers of high-speed access services, starting with the fact that the SMIL-enhanced media presentation via streaming that CNN and others are developing is in many instances superior to the custom-made, non-streamed enhanced content that some of the same as well as other entities are supplying to the cable providers. Very soon, as CNN goes to higher rates and integrates SMIL more thoroughly, cable data subscribers who download the G2 RealPlayer will have a more compelling version of the network's online services via its Web site or the CNN channel on the RealPlayer than they can get through the proprietary CNN content component offered over the branded @Home product. @Home Network, which is providing broadband-enhanced versions of CNN and other material using large file downloads and playback via Apple Computer Corp.'s Quicktime multimedia software, is likely to switch over to streaming once CNN Interactive begins offering a high-speed version of its files to anyone with high-speed access, whether they're @Home subscribers or not, Garrard says. "@Home has had issues with using streamed media, especially for short-form content, because of their need to manage their network as efficiently as possible, especially on the access side, but the new streaming environment probably changes some of the underlying operational assumptions," Garrard notes. "Whether they'll go to RN or Netshow or both remains to be seen." If, as seems inevitable, content suppliers using RN's G2 and other streaming systems as well routinely add a high-speed delivery option to their streaming files, cable operators can expect users to be pushing bandwidth contention levels well past the levels underlying the current design parameters assigned to the typical HFC (hybrid fiber/coax) network. Such problems, representing as they do the availability of content with the power to draw subscribers to high-speed services, are the kinds of problems operators should like to have, argues Kelly Ruebel, director for marketing and sales at MediaOne Group's Express unit. Hiram