A first in Europe Internet via a cable television network : the Web server of the Le Mans 24-Hours car race is connected to the Internet via the Le Mans cable television network.
| The cable system : an unborn competence
for telecommunications | The strategy of the MSO (Multi System Operator) Lyonnaise Communications operating cable TV Systems (TV Cable t.m.). | |
| The french cable networks have been engineered and built formely for transporting the large electronic flow necessary to TV channels.Many cable TV system operators have choosen the Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC) technology, therefore the TV Cable networks are in the best position to form the ideal support for high-speed telecommunications.Today TV requires only 20 per cent of the cable transportation capacity, which leaves 80 percent free space for telephone and data transmission. | Lyonnaise Communications, leader in France, has 2 000 000 homes passed including companies located in local loops and has decided to offer full access to the Internet.An experimental platform was first installed in the 7th district of Paris, in order to propose the on-line service (1) MULTICABLE (t.m.) to 200 subscribers, along with an option for accessing to the Internet.The analysis of this experience brings to light two major facts : 98 percent of the subscribers to MULTICABLE took the option for accessing to the Internet, and remain on this option most of the time. It shows that the subscribers in the 7th district or Paris give priority to an open and full access to the Internet.The MSO Lyonnaise Communications has, therefore, chosen to progressively launch CYBERCABLE on its systems : a service providing full and high-speed access to the Internet, with an all-inclusive monthly subscription offering unlimited time of connection and telecommunication. | |
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At the Le Mans 24-Hours car race : CYBERCABLE on the starting line. | ||
| Le Mans is the first cable TV system of the
MSO Lyonnaise Communications where
CYBERCABLE will be opened in september,
1996.Before the september commercial
launching, the Le Mans 24-Hours car race gives
a unique opportunity to make a European First
by connecting its Web server to the Internet via a
cable TV system.An optic fibre trunk with a
throughput of 10 Megabits per second (i.e.,
around 1,000 times that of a conventionnal
telephone line) is activated between the race site
and the headend of TV Cable, itself connected to
the World Wide Web of the Internet. Electronic manufacturers have built a new range of cable modems specially designed to high throughputs. | To this day, Lyonnaise Communications has
selected two suppliers of cable modems :
Thomson Broadcast Systems and Motorola.
These companies are partners of TV Cable
within the operation "Le Mans 24-Hours car
race on Internet".From September 1996 in Le
mans, the choice of using the cable television
system as the doorway to Internet will procure
unequalled rapidity for the subscribers and
constitute a giant leap in the development of
on-line multimedia. (1) On-line service : total contents preselected or created by an operator, using the internet transmission protocol, but isolated from the Internet world-wide network. | |
