Word: bandwidths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: Want more bandwidth? You'll be able to get it soon, if you happen to have a spare $50 million. The federal government is financing university research into a new Internet technology called the gigapop, that will connect at a screaming speed ? 1 million times faster than a 28.8 modem. But considering the cost of the traffic-sorting gigapops, only the giant telcos such as MCI will be able to afford them when they arrive, in approximately 2002. Small-time service providers will most likely be left to wither on the slower-connection vine: One analyst predicts the gigapop...
...link promises to make impulse shopping on the Web a breeze, and frees up the home computer for other users. Since only about 40 percent of U.S. households have personal computers, but just about everybody has one or more television sets, adding the TV audience and cable?s bandwidth to the Net has powerful implications, expecially for Net commerce. Granting Microsoft?s interactive future a tentative blessing, Wall Street nudged the stock up 1 1/6 points to close at 125 3/8 and pushed Comcast up by 2 15/16 points...
...cable and DBS can't ignore the digital future. So they'll probably have to upgrade eventually to support digital traffic--although the additional bandwidth will cut into the number of channels they can offer--while cable services like HBO retool to produce digital shows. A few years hence, your local cable or satellite guy will start offering, alongside the usual 60 analog channels, a tier of scintillating HDTV programming, with brilliant color and sound...
...Network (HSN); the dormant production studio Savoy Pictures; and the Internet Shopping Network, a Website for computer purchases. He isn't discussing his future plans, but the Web is surely central to them. "It is absolutely clear as a bell to me," Diller says, "that server technology and wide bandwidth will transform the way we acquire all of our information and our entertainment and very much of how we purchase goods and services. When you have the infrastructure in place, it's completely transforming. The dominoes will fall...
...well-intentioned as these solicitations may be, they are usually false and continue to circulate widely long after their origin, sucking up valuable bandwidth across the Internet...