in the market. Cable Industry Currently, the cable industry relies heavily on the use of coaxial cable to transmit its signals, through radio waves, to consumers. This is the cable that is already installed in millions of homes throughout the country. However, compared to other recent technological advances, the coaxial cable has many set backs to overcome. First, the number of signals that it can transmit simultaneously is limited. Second, the signal transmitted by the cable gets worse as distance
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Calls at home are routed over the IP network and paid at a flat rate per month. No interruption or authorization for the shift is required—soft handoff takes place automatically as many times as the caller enters or leaves the range. By about 2000, cable TV companies were in a technical position to offer triple play over one physical medium to a large number of their customers, as their networks already have sufficient bandwidth to carry hundreds of video channels. Cable's main competition for television
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Porter's Five Forces Supplier Power: Here you assess how easy it is for suppliers to drive up prices. This is driven by the number of suppliers of each key input, the uniqueness of their product or service, their strength and control over you, the cost of switching from one to another, and so on. The fewer the supplier choices you have, and the more you need suppliers' help, the more powerful your suppliers are. Buyer Power: Here you ask yourself how easy it is for buyers to drive prices down
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the price of fibre optics can be quite expensive. The cheaper alternative to fibre optic cables is called coaxial cable RG-6. I chose these cables because they are very safe and have a high resistance to noise. Furthermore, these cables can carry a signal much farther than any twisted pair cables, although still not as far as fibre optics. However, the coaxial cable is still more expensive than twisted cables because of the materials needed to craft them. Because the company already needs to request
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original forms of televised entertainment: analog tv, cable, movietheaters, rentals, sateiliteTV *ppl seek convienence * Internet forces tv industry to transform: -the internet: iph/ipad,youtube,netflix,hulu,crackle Disruptive Technology- scared of losing customers to WWW -high prices subscriptions, free internet vids,highspeed increastes quality of streaming, unauth. distrib. of films/shows, control ovr when u watch tv,no commercials Cable tv RESPONSE to WWW using internet as a devlivery
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beginning point from the customer’s perspective is the demarcation point, or demark. This point is where the inside equipment for the site meets the local carrier. The signal incoming to the demark comes from a copper cable that is converted to an electrical signal over coax cable, and transmitted to the main boxes. From the demark to the main network, the signal hits the access network. The access network is the gateway between the demark and the local exchange. It is the equipment that controls
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Week 1 Exercise 1. The twisted pair is the main apparatus used to connect the customer to the central office, and vice versa. This is referred to as a “local loop”, and relies on one pair of copper cables, or ‘twisted pairs’ per household. The central office connects directly to the local exchange, but is not considered part of the local loop. The local exchange represents a specific company, which connects to the CO, which connects to the customer. To summarize, the interexchange carrier provides
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where DSL, cable, and FTTH are not available (e.g., in some rural settings), a satellite link can be used to connect a residence to the Internet at speeds of more than 1 Mbps; StarBand and HughesNet are two such satellite access providers. Dial-up access over traditional phone lines is based on the same model as DSL—a home modem connects over a phone line to a modem in the ISP. Compared with DSL and other broadband access networks, dial-up access is excruciatingly slow at 56 kbps. 3. Cable to HFC:
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Manipulation and Control If people are manipulated and controlled, they will eventually become dissatisfied with their surroundings . I will be analyzing these themes in the Truman Show directed by Peter Weir, the song ‘Power and Control’ performed by Marina and the Diamonds, and my visual representation. The media is a powerful device that can be used to manipulate and control our thoughts and emotions, this is exposed in the Truman Show directed by Peter Weir. As it increasingly becomes clear
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desktop users; the desktops have Gigabit network interfaces. The current network cabling is Category 6 Twisted Pair Ethernet cabling, connecting to Ethernet network switches. These switches are capable of Gigabit connectivity. Cat6 Ethernet cable is commonly used as it offers stability. The choice of Cat6 Twisted Pair Ethernet intended to run at Gigabit speeds meant that the cabling, network cards and network cards and network switches needed to be aligned with this choice of cabling(DeSanti--Cisco
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