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...more than 6,000 landline phones with a wide variety of telephone service features. Most of these are digital phone lines, also known as ISDN, which cost roughly twice as much per month as analog lines. Many faculty and staff do not need the additional features – such as call forwarding and conferencing capabilities – available in a digital phone, and due to advances in analog phone technology, many other digital phone features are now available for analog phone lines. An ongoing audit of our usage and needs has so far yielded substantial annual savings through...
Sales of videoconferencing hardware totaled $1.1 billion last year, according to Wainhouse Research, which tracks the industry. Auxiliary businesses also did well. Telecommunications companies like Verizon and Southwestern Bell, which provide the digital ISDN lines that are used for 80% of videoconferencing communication (at about 60[cents] per minute) posted more than $3.6 billion in videoconferencing-related sales last year. Bristol-Myers Squibb alone logged 2 million minutes in videoconferences (which in turn saved the company hundreds of millions of dollars in travel expenses). Wainhouse projects that revenues for connection services related to videoconferencing will top $8.6 billion...
...Knocking off a big peak might be lauded in an obscure climbing journal, but as far as mainstream audiences were concerned, who cared? These days, however, Simonson sends e-mail from the Rongbuk Glacier in the shadow of Everest's north face and talks as eagerly about dual ISDN lines and transmission rates as he does about rope and backpacks. "Ten years ago we were in the Dark Ages from a technology standpoint," he writes in response to an e-mail from TIME. "Multimedia meant you had more than one cassette tape to listen to on your Walkman...
...takes only 42 seconds to download via Europe Online vs. 32 minutes using a regular 56KB/second telephone dial-up connection. The reason Europe Online is so speedy is that its network uses multiple technologies for the up-link to the satellite. Among them: cable modems, integrated services digital network (ISDN) lines, digital subscriber lines (DSL), wireless application protocol (WAP) and other broadband distribution systems...
...scared Japanese people," says Yukiko Takahashi, a manager at Bandai Networks, a subsidiary of the toy company that gave the world the Tamagotchi virtual pet and created rudimentary games that have been big hits on i-mode. "It made people think about connecting a PC, using a keyboard, modems, ISDN lines, stuff they didn't understand and stuff that cost too much. The smartest thing DoCoMo did was not to use the word Internet in any of its promotions...