Word: bandwith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...markets -- bringing the ex-monopoly within sight of its pre-breakup glory days. Cable lines aren't just a way for AT&T to get back into the local telephone markets wrested from them in 1984, they're better. Armed with the lines' high bandwith, AT&T is positioning itself to offer phone service, cable TV and high-speed Internet access in a one-stop package...
...Compaq, Intel, Microsoft and the Baby Bells join forces on a product, and say they'll have it in stores by Christmas, you can bet the bank you'll be unwrapping it this December. It makes commercial sense for all concerned: "Microsoft and Intel's business depends on increasing bandwith," says TIME senior writer and tech expert Joshua Ramo, "and the margins in the phone business suck...
...plan to produce modems that connect at a screamingly high 1.5 million bits per second is actually modest by DSL standards. The makers of the technology believe it can squeeze as much as 8 million bits out of a copper phone wire ? perhaps more. "It's the great bandwith horizon," says Ramo. "You never get any closer to the edge...
...Internet. But TIME's Joshua Quittner says broadcast rules don't mesh with the online world. "Broadcast standards are there because there is a limited bandwidth. Only a few people could use it, and because of that they have a responsibility to the public. The net is unlimited bandwith -- anybody can access it -- and this measure would limit free speech...
Steen and his technicians have foreseen the problem and are in the process of installing a new kind of network hub--called a switch--which should provide the requisite network bandwith...