IP over in-ground cable applications.

Thu Sep 12 22:01:32 UTC 2002

At 02:28 PM 9/12/2002 -0700, sal.sabella at hushmail.com wrote:

>"Christopher J. Wolff" wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a method for integrating TCP/IP with an existing
> > analog cable television network.
>
>Yes Chris, it's called DOCSIS.  I would think that a CIO of a company
>named "Broadband Labs" would have a lab in which to experiment with
>cable.
>
> > My current thoughts on this are to digitize the satellite video into
> > mpeg2 and deliver it over TCP/IP through the in-ground cable.
>
>What about the neighborhoods with above-ground cable, how would you
>deliver service to them?

What does above-ground vs. below ground have to do with delivering MPEG2?? 
I have digital cable with MPEG2 video, my cable Internet access (DOCSIS 
compliant), and analog cable stations even though the cable in my 
neighborhood is underground (as are all the utilities) and immediately 
outside my neighborhood by the main road all the utilities appear to go 
back up onto poles to get anywhere. It might just be a misleading illusion 
but I think it runs above ground to get to the cable company's office as do 
the phone lines which I know for a fact. The cable company that services 
the area where I work is talking about rolling out digital cable soon and 
all of the people in their service area have above ground utilities 
including cable. Am I obsessing and were you just being sarcastic or is 
there a technical reason why you stated this?

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