Computer Industry Report articles from February 1995

Computer Industry Report archives from February 1995

Video-on-demand trials: IT suppliers face technical, marketing, and regulatory hurdles. (subscription television; information technology)
February 10, 1995... Video-on-demand (VoD) has the potential to drive a new phase of growth for IT suppliers. Market opportunities are emerging for server makers (video servers), transport providers and managers (broadband digital service), and personal "terminal"...

A tangled web. (information technology suppliers)
February 10, 1995... Rather than put all their eggs in one basket, several suppliers (such as AT&T and Sun) have chosen to align with multiple coalitions. This may not be foolish, as long as such a strategy does not dilute the multiple efforts. The reality is that...

AT&T Network Systems and BroadBand Technologies. (Broadband Technologies Inc.)
February 10, 1995... These two companies have come together to develop and market a switched digital video system that marries AT&T's SLC 2000 access system and BBT's FLX fiber-loop access system. The combined product, which has been named simply the SLC 2000 with...

Bell Atlantic Video Services, AT&T, BroadBand Technologies, General Instruments, Westell, IBM, Philips, Divicom. (interactive multimedia TV services testing)
February 10, 1995... [TABULAR DATA OMITTED] Bell Atlantic, which is also an AT&T/BBS customer, is running a trial in conjunction with AT&T, BroadBand Technologies, General Instruments, Westell, IBM, Philips, and Divicom. Bell Atlantic Video Services Co. (BVS) is...

Bell Atlantic's interactive video distance learning network.
February 10, 1995... In October of 1994, the state of Maryland selected Bell Atlantic and AT&T to provide state schools with an interactive video distance learning network. The contract calls for Bell Atlantic to provide its distance learning service, tariffed since...

AT&T Silicon Graphics. (Interactive Digital Solutions)
February 10, 1995... In June 1994, AT&T and Silicon Graphics formed a joint venture, Interactive Digital Solutions, to rapidly develop and deploy large-scale, fully integrated, video-server solutions for telephone company networks and cable TV systems. The new...

Time Warner Cable's Full-Service Network. (interactive-digital multimedia network)
February 10, 1995... The Full-Service Network (FSN) is an interactive-digital multimedia network designed to provide customers access to a wide range of entertainment, education, information, and communication services for homes and businesses. The network is now...

Siemens Scientific-Atlanta Sun Microsystems. (Siemens Public Communications Network Group; Scientific-Atlanta Inc.; Sun Microsystems Inc.)(includes related article)
February 10, 1995... Siemens Public Communications formed an alliance with Scientific-Atlanta and Sun Microsystems in November 1994 to deliver IMMXpress, a multimedia network architecture providing end-to-end multimedia network solutions worldwide. The IMMXpress...

The Fed. (FCC regulations)
February 10, 1995... Federal regulation continues to play a major role in determining the pace at which these video-on-demand trials can take place. The Federal Communications Commission has been steadily approving requests from different telephone companies across...

Why all this fuss? (telecommunications industry alliances)
February 10, 1995... A number of motivations are responsible for the increase in alliance formation. Cable companies are concerned that they will be supplemented as providers of high-bandwidth capacity into the home and are actively looking for new sources of...

Closer is better: success in IT services entails new strategies. (information technology)
February 24, 1995... The worldwide market for information technology services (ranging from IT strategy consulting to farming out IT operations) is, by any measure, a huge beast. Billion-dollar, multiyear, multidimensional contracts - difficult to thoroughly analyze...