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30, 20, and 10 Years Ago in OPN
Cable television; paper management; Aden Meinel
1992 [M. Duchetti / Getty Images]
“Photonic technology [has] promoted the cable industry from an unreliable provider of sub-500-MHz variable-quality video to a potentially highly reliable provider of 1-GHz bandwidth to the home … With a coaxial-cable bandwidth near 1 GHz, opportunities for enhanced pay-per-view or video-on-demand services abound. Although many researchers may question the sociological consequences of a nation armed with hundred-channel remote-control selectors, the technical and economic viability has been proven.”
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