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Technology Stocks : C-Cube -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Stoctrash who wrote (36763)	10/15/1998 4:40:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Testing. Testing. Ignore this. Never mind

To: Stoctrash who wrote (36763)	10/15/1998 5:00:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Scientific-Atlanta(C-Cube customer) builds Time-Warner's Pegasus headends.............................................. multichannel.com October 15, 1998: S-A Snags 'AthenaTV' Order Atlanta -- As anticipated, Scientific-Atlanta Inc. snagged the order for the headend equipment that Time Warner Cable needs to roll out its "AthenaTV" digital-television service. Under the arrangement, Time Warner will use S-A's "PowerVu" digital-video system to deliver up to 100 channels of AthenaTV programming. PowerVu lets the MSO utilize either 256 or 64 QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation), executives said. The use of 256 QAM affords up to 40 percent more digital capacity, which can either be applied to more channels or to improved picture quality, said Jim Chiddix, chief technical officer for the MSO. Time Warner and S-A will create a National Addressable Center for centralized subscriber management of the digital set-tops, which will allow operators the choice of either national or local control of the set-tops that they use. Perry Tanner, president of S-A's Satellite Television Networks business unit, said in a prepared statement that the PowerVu system -- with built-in statistical-multiplexing capabilities and the ability to use the full bandwidth of the satellite -- "provides a more efficient way for programmers and cable operators to deliver services to the set-top." - 10/14/98

To: Stoctrash who wrote (36763)	10/15/1998 7:10:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Fiber to the curb. Optical fiber is just as cheap as copper.......... Cheap Optical Superhighway Will Reach Japanese Homes In the year 2001 fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) will bring practical optical fiber communications to the home. NTT Corp of Japan expects to begin installing fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) in 2001 or 2002 (Fig 1). In preparation, the firm began laying optical fiber to roadway curbs (or utility poles) in three major Japanese cities in March 1998. It plans to use existing copper to connect to the home using the fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC) scheme (called the system in Japan). Home communications demand, especially for Internet access, continues to climb rapidly, and NTT plans to answer calls for higher speed and lower cost with FTTH. FTTH will also mean major market growth for domestic communication equipment manufacturers. An engineer at a firm manufacturing components for communications goes so far as to say, "My firm is betting its existence on FTTH," pointing to the fact that capital, people and tools are already being invested. By about 2001, when the introduction of FTTH is expected to take off, test broadcasts of terrestrial digital television programs will also be under way, and high-speed datacomm services using the cable television (TV) network will be operating full-blast. A succession of new data highways to the home have been announced, such as asynchronous digital subscriber line (ADSL), wireless local loop (WLL) and digital satellite data broadcasting. But FTTH offers the potential for the fastest and cheapest service of them all. More.................. nikkeibp.com