Ray Van Eng (10/29/96)
In Japan, the Marubeni Corporation, a Tokyo based trading company is implementing about 1000 Motorola CyberSURF cable modems in order to offer broadband multimedia services including Internet access in the first quarter of 1997. The CyberSURF enables a PC user to connect to the Marubeni's hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) network via a regular 10Base-T connector to achieve a downstream speed of up to 10 Mbps and an upstream of 768 Kbps. In the UK, Nynex CableComm is using about 200 Motorola CyberSURF cable modems for a test run in Manchester. Trial test customers would be able to access not only the Internet but also be able to interact with a virtual community of government, medical, social, industrial and commercial establishments. All this is part of the Gemisis 2000 project, an information highway experiment designed to explore the various aspects of a broadband multimedia online world. In Melbourne, Australia Motorola teamed up with telephone carrier Telstra to offer speedy Internet access via cable modems. Services may eventually become available in all major metropolitan areas in the country including places like Sydney. |
