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48 Many operational issues exist including capacity management, traffic engineering, fault detection and clearance, failure recovery, provisioning, customer servicing, network administration, traffic policy management, etc. These areas are new and complex in a shared media, public high-speed data communications network. See 49 An Intranet is a private network inside a company or organization that uses the same kinds of software that you would find on the public Internet, but that is only for internal use. As the Internet has become more popular, many of the tools used on the Internet are being used in private networks. For example, many companies have Web servers that are available only to employees. See 50 Owned and operated by the ISPs, a regional distribution center or hub usually connects several cable headends to the public Internet. 51 Dial-up services require the user to place a telephone call connection to the ISP/OSP each time access to the Internet is desired. . 52 See 1998 Competition Report, 13 FCC Rcd. at 24416-17, App. B, Tbl. B-9. 53 CableLabs is a membership organization consisting of cable system operators in North and South America. <http://www.cablelabs.org/start_here/index.html> In 1998, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) approved the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification System (DOCSIS) developed by CableLabs, as an international standard for the transmission of data over cable. CableLabs® International Telecommunications Union Approves DOCSIS Modem Standard, (news release) (March 19, 1998). The ITU standard sets forth definitions for high-speed, two-way data transmissions over cable. 54 Currently, cable modems are available in some retail outlets, but these modems may not be technically compliant with DOCSIS standards, and may not be interoperable with modems that will appear after DOCSIS certification. 55 Cable Modem Subscriber Count Tops 1 Million, Cable Datacom News (Aug. 1999), available at 56 Id. 57 Id. Traditional cable networks are one-ways systems wherein the video signals travel in one direction: from the cable headend to the subscriber’s home or business. In the context of cable modem service, one-way systems utilize the cable wires for downstream transmissions and existing telephone wires for upstream transmissions . 58 1998 Cable Competition Report, 13 FCC Rcd. at 24316 ¶ 55. 59 See <http://www.cabledatanews.com/cmic> 60 See 61 Id. Approximately 275,000 of Excite@Home subscribers are in Canada, bringing its U.S. total to 395,000. 62 Id. 63 <http://www.cabledatacomnews.com/cmic/cmic7.html> 64 Imposing Common Carrier-Style Regulation on Cable Would Impede Deployment of Cable’s High Speed Internet Service To Rural and Small Communities, NCTA ex parte filing (May 1999). See High Speed Access Corp. homepage, 65 Imposing Common Carrier-Style Regulation on Cable Would Impede Deployment of Cable’s High Speed Internet Service To Rural and Small Communities, NCTA ex parte filing (May 1999). The following list provides few examples of cable systems offering broadband and/or high speed Internet access to rural and small markets:
66 Lehman Brothers, ADSL v. Cable Modems: And the Winner Is . . ., at 6 (June 1999) (Lehman Report). Even conservative estimates indicate that cable should have over 4 million broadband subscribers by 2002. Based on the current subscriber total of 1 million, cable broadband market should experience an annual growth rate of over 100 % for the next 3 years. 67 FBW Report at 78. 68 AT&T stated that plant upgrades to support broadband should reach nearly 60% of homes passed by the end of 1999 and 90% of homes passed by the end of 2000. Similarly, MediaOne has stated that its plant upgrades will reach 70% by the end of 1999 and over 90% by the end of 2000. 69 Lehman Report at 17. 70 See 71 DSL figures available at Directory: pub -> Bureaus pub -> Preparation of Papers for ieee transactions on medical imaging pub -> Forthcoming meetings and conferences pub -> Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems & Computers, Pacific Grove, ca, November 1978, pp. 55 58 pub -> Forthcoming meetings and conferences pub -> Harmonised compatibility and sharing conditions for video pmse in the 7 9 ghz frequency band, taking into account radar use Bureaus -> I. statutory framework Bureaus -> Before the Federal Communications Commission Bureaus -> July 21, 2000 fcc filings july 13 In the Matter of Numbering Resource Optimization Download 276.36 Kb. Share with your friends:
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