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Internet
- Bringing Enhanced Cable Services to Market: Forecasts and Analyses
Evans, Scott
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- Provides a state-of-the-industry overview of cable. Included are recommendations for the industry plus financial analyses using different enhanced services models: video only, Internet only, video + Internet, video + voice, and combined services.
- Broadband Access Ramps: The Inevitable Next Horizon
Wright, Terry
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- Considers the drivers underlying the emergence of the publicly accessible broadband network. Begins by stepping back in history to look at similar change agents that produced paradigm shifts. Argues that the cable industry has the opportunity to be an influential catalyst in shaping the nature and timing for this evolution to broadband-accessed cyberspace, as it remolds its installed competitive advantage into the fundamental on-line services access transport.
- Building Internet Applications Through Technology
Litvak, Michael
Clare, Jeremy
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- Provides an overview of how business functions are being transformed by electronic commerce applications and the specific technologies that are driving these applications, such as intelligent agents, cookies, and plug-ins. The authors describe these key technologies and their relationship to critical applications, as well as their business impact. Significant trends in this area are also highlighted.
- Cable Modems and the Internet
Evans, Scott
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- Examines what is driving cable to commit billions in new capital expenditures to deploy a technology -- high-speed, on-line access via cable modem -- that has yet to prove itself. The author looks at the problems related to provisioning the service, and what it will take to bring the product to market.
- Competitive Advantage on Cable's Digital Tier
Gardner, James N. , Esq.
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- On the eve of cable television's rollout of digital services, this article outlines what the author sees as the likely characteristics of competitive advantage on cable's digital tier. He begins with a discussion of some of the challenges facing the broadband communications industry as it seeks to make an historic transition to a new digital era, then sketches out six basic rules which may shape the terms of economic combat in this challenging new environment.
- Convergence Clash: PC versus TV as the Ultimate Browser
Evans, Scott
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- The preceding article is followed up with a short piece on the battle over the next mass market home appliance for accessing information and entertainment. The author tells why he's placing his bets on the Internet Appliance, or the $500 Networking PC.
- Converging Webcasting Technologies
Van Tassel, Joan , Ph.D.
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- This companion article provides a quick synopsis of TVPC and PCTV companies and technologies.
- Doing Business on the Internet
Lehman, Tom
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- Forecasts of High-Speed Home Digital Services
Vanston, Lawrence K. , Ph.D.
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- Summarizes recent Technology Futures, Inc. forecasts of the percentage of households using digital services by data rate. Also provides some scenarios describing how one group of potential providers -- local exchange carriers -- will have to upgrade their networks to be competitive in the market for digital access services.
- Impact of Internet Traffic on Public Telephone Networks
Kumar, Balaji
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- Addresses the impacts and the implications of Internet traffic on the local exchange public network. First, some background on the LEC network and the assumptions used in the design of telephone networks is provided. Second, the characteristics of voice and Internet traffic are defined. Finally, how Internet traffic impacts the local network is defined. Having identified this impact, some potential solutions for short-term and long-term options are discussed.
- Media Asset Management
Van Tassel, Joan , Ph.D.
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- The author provides an overview of an emerging technology, media asset management, that she argues will revolutionize the entertainment industry and all content provider businesses in the next decade. She introduces us to the technology -- what it is and what it does -- and discusses why film studios, production companies, special effects and post-production facilities, Internet content providers, and many Fortune 500 companies are adopting the technology. She concludes with a look at barriers to adoption and some drivers for adoption.
- Optimizing ISDN to Give More Capacity at Less Cost
Bryce, James Y.
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- Reviews the history of ISDN, provides some quick fundamentals, and finally addresses the problem of public switched network congestion brought on by intense Internet use. The author argues against dedicated ISDN and builds a case for Always On/Dynamic ISDN (AO/DI) Network Architecture, which creates the illusion of full-time connection while actually reducing connection times and costs to carriers and users.
- Packet Plutocracy, Data Democracy, and the Bureaucracy
Wohlstetter, John C.
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- This article examines FCC policy concerning access to advanced services that risks perpetuating a plutocracy of high-end users while delaying diffusion to the mass marketplace. John discusses how Sections 254 and 706 of the Telecom Act could potentially work at cross-purposes with each other, how the FCC interprets the interplay between these two sections, and whether this interplay could advance or delay rapid modernization of the public switched telephone network.
- Packet Policies: Petabits, Photons, Phonemes, and the Feds
Wohlstetter, John C.
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- The author provides a candid look at FCC policy-making rules on incumbent LEC interconnection, availability of unbundled network elements, and universal access. He starts the discussion with a review of packet networks, then addresses the potential harm to ISP interests that may arise from these FCC rules. Finally, he suggests how proper regulation of packet networks can help the Internet flourish.
- Smart Communities In Action
Jung, John G.
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- John Jung's companion article available only electronically.
- Smart Communities: Digitally-Inclined and Content-Rich
Jung, John G.
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- John Jung has previously written about the increasing role of telecommunications in any community's economic development strategy. In this latest NTQ article, he looks at the state of the smart community today. He argues that merely deploying additional wire does not make the community smart. The successful smart communities are those that are able to use the technologies of a knowledge-based economy to develop, market, and supply new products and services that are demanded both by other knowledge-based economies and by the developing markets moving in that direction.
- Telecommunications in China: More Than Was Bargained For?
Ure, John , Ph.D.
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- Discusses the likelihood of China opening its telecom market to foreign direct investment (FDI) for funding much-needed network expansion. Included in the discussion is a review of China's telecom revenue sources and opportunities. Also included is an insightful look into the Chinese policy-making process.
- Telecommunications' Big Idea
Niles, John S.
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- John Niles argues that the primary purpose of telecommunications for society is simply where best to go depends on what you know. In other words, telecommunications facilitates a better level and mix of proximity to the people and places we care about. He discusses the individual, organizational, and social forces that shape the choice between proximity and remote interaction, including the real costs of time and travel, internal reorganization, balkanization, interest articulation and interest aggregation.
- The Challenge of Implementing Service-Provider Portability
Rollins, John C. , MS, PE
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- Reviews one key aspect of the 1996 Telecommunications Act -- the implementation of Service Provider Portability (SPP). Included in the discussion is a review of some history associated with SPP and a look at the impacts to network switching components from a hardware and software perspective.
- The Interactive Device for the Information Age
Miller, Avram
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- The author argues quite convincingly that it is the PC, not the TV, that will become the ubiquitous information device used by people for communicating and accessing information on the electronic superhighway of tomorrow.
- The Remaking of the Internet
Evans, Scott
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- The author gives us his perspective of the Internet. Always entertaining, he provides a quick history of the evolution of the Internet, then looks at three emerging trends -- Intranets, digital cash payments, and multimedia content delivery via the Internet -- that have the potential to remake the Internet.
- The War of the Wires
Evans, Scott
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- Examines the market dynamics of providing a multitude of communications products and services to the home. The author discusses the key factor limiting new service introduction -- the aging infrastructure. He talks about current competitive strategies for both the telephone and cable industries and gives us his thoughts on what we can expect in 1997.
- Virtual Worlds Commerce
Gell, Michael , Ph.D.
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- Explores the shift in the market toward the commoditization of virtual reality and the creation of on-line virtual worlds. New developments in electronic commerce are identified which point the way toward new forms of business intelligence and new sources of profit. The implications for the telecom industry are analyzed in terms of the new technologies and capabilities required to support virtual worlds commerce. Opportunities and threats are also identified.
- We Have Found the Killer App--And It is Killing Us
Holliday, Clifford R.
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- Looks at the design of the telco network and the Internet, then considers the impact of the projected Internet traffic on various parts of those combined networks. The author illustrates why he thinks the Web is becoming a "real killer" and discusses some of the possible ways to reform this "felon" application.
- Webcasting: The Computing Paradigm Shifts into Third Gear
Van Tassel, Joan , Ph.D.
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- Highlights the new broadcast functionality of computers that extends the computer's usefulness into the arena of mass communication and distribution of information. The author describes the different technologies that comprise the field, covering the features, drivers, standards, market characteristics, and future directions of each segment.
- Will TVs and PCs Converge? Point and Counterpoint
Grant, August E. , Ph.D.
Shamp, Scott A. , Ph.D.
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- Presents two sides of the debate on whether technological, organizational, and social factors related to computers and televisions have gotten to the point that the two devices are converging into an "information appliance." The authors consider factors impeding convergence, then take a look at factors pushing convergence.
- xDSL: The Solution for Today's Bandwidth Demands?
Smith, David
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- Looks at the future of several xDSL technologies and potential market opportunities. The primary focus is on several different variations of ADSL and why they provide a quick, cost-effective solution to today's bandwidth constraints. Concludes with a discussion of where the real market opportunities wait and raises some questions about potential problems.
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