Word: coaxial
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...think of it as cable. AT&T wants you to view that innocuous coaxial wire tacked beneath the shag as a gateway to the digital future, one through which phone calls, faxes, e-mail, news, movies and entertainments as yet unimagined will stream into your home, the gigabytes of information flowing seamlessly into your collection of computers, televisions and telephones. And at the end of the month, for all that, AT&T will be sending you one bill...
...elegantly simple plan: fashion AT&T into the leading communications company in the world by acquiring what's known as "the last mile"--the part that ends in your home. If you are like most Americans, you are connected by two wires: a copper phone wire and a coaxial television cable. Own one of those, Armstrong reasons, and the future of communications--via voice, data and television...
...patents coaxial cable...
After wiring the country with coaxial cable and falling heavily in debt doing so, cable-television outfits have yet to realize a world in which television, telephones and computers meld into an "interactive TV" that lets viewers order movies or pizza, E-mail the kids' teachers, shop or browse the Internet. Cable still means endless reruns of The Odd Couple, wrestling and infomercials...
...main culprits are the amplifiers that sit along cable lines, keeping signals strong and clear during their downstream journey. Not only do these amps not work when messages are funneled upstream, they actually degrade signals already under assault from radio interference. "There's far more noise in the coaxial system than any of us expected to see," says a hardware executive who has been close to the cable-modem industry since its inception. "It's really difficult to drive the signals out over these lines. Every trial to date has run into that as a significant problem...