Word: end-to-end
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...Popwire, which launched the first TV broadcast over a 3G network with Ericsson in 2000, Johansson helped develop an end-to-end media-streaming infrastructure. More recently, he has watched European carriers give up trying to create mobile-TV services in-house and start looking for outside vendors to handle them, which is MobiTV's opportunity. It's a classic make-or-buy situation; Johansson is in the middle of it. Says he: "They are the brand name. We are the one to run this service and develop the technology...
...mail traffic over peer-to-peer file sharing. Another reason for sidestepping end-to-end, however, has certain technophiles up in arms: money. Some Internet providers, such as Comcast, offer new Internet telephony services. But a traditional phone conversation effectively gets its own dedicated pair of wires. So if Comcast’s telephone service is going to compete, it’s going to need to give its users equally good guarantees on their network, ahead of ordinary Internet traffic.Other breaches of end-to-end are in the works as well. Some Internet providers, struggling...
Secondly, the Internet is built up on a principal called “end-to-end.” Unlike the telephone system, the Internet is a dumb network. All it does is, in principle, is take data and send it off to where it’s going. It doesn’t care what kind of data it’s carrying, or who the data are coming from, and you don’t need a license to plug a machine in and start transmitting data, or to write software that transmits new kinds...
...unlike third-period comebacks at Union and Yale, they didn’t just turn it on for the last 20 minutes. This was Harvard hockey, the way we all knew it could be played, from end-to-end, buzzer-to-buzzer. “The elusive 60-minute game we’ve been talking about for so long,” said the relieved captain Smith. “The guys were willing to do anything...
...term through value-added services that the voice-data combination is just beginning to make possible. For that reason, most of the major phone companies--AT&T, BellSouth, Qwest Communications, Sprint and Verizon--have already announced a VOIP offering of some sort. They too are responding to upstarts like end-to-end IP service provider GoBeam, based in Pleasanton, Calif. Ultimately, residential customers will reap some of the same rewards...