ADVISORY/ Tiaris to Demonstrate Industry-First Broadband Home Technology for 100Mbps Residence-Wide Distribution of Video, Data and Voice Over Existing Wiring.Business/Technology Editors ADVISORY..for Nov. 27-30 (Tues.-Fri.) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
Who: Tiaris, Inc.
What: Innovative fabless semiconductor company will
demonstrate residence-wide distribution of high
definition video (HDTV) content and cable modem
Internet access over existing in-house wiring.
Where: Western Cable Show at CableNET(R)2001 Exhibit,
Anaheim, California
When: November 27-30, 2001
Tiaris, Inc. (www.tiaris.com), an innovative fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. that develops and markets communication system-on-chip solutions to enable residence-wide networking for the distribution of video, data and voice content, will demonstrate its breakthrough technology at CableNET(R) 2001. Co-sponsored by the California Cable Television Association (CCTA (Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, London, www.ogc.gov.uk) An agency of the U.K. government's Office of Government Commerce that has been providing IT advice and guidance to the public sector for over 25 years. ) and Cable Television Laboratories (CableLabs(R)), CableNET is the annual Western Show exhibit of the latest in broadband technologies and services. Tiaris will demonstrate the distribution of high definition video (HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates ) content from a personal video recorder See DVR. (PVR See DVR. )-enabled set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. to TV sets in other rooms, and the sharing of a single cable modem cable modem Modem used to convert analog data signals to digital form and vise versa, for transmission or receipt over cable television lines, especially for connecting to the Internet. Internet access See how to access the Internet. by multiple PCs in the house--all this over existing in-house coax wiring and in parallel to legacy analog and digital cable TV signals. To arrange an interview, please contact Leslie Drohan at 508-836-4300 or stop by Tiaris' demonstration at the CableNET 2001 exhibit. About Tiaris Tiaris, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, develops and markets communication system-on-chip solutions that enable residence-wide distribution and networking of multimedia content. Tiaris' chipset solution establishes a high-speed, QoS, plug-and-play, "no-new-wires" transmission network that facilitates residence-wide distribution and networking of high quality video, data and voice content and services, allowing Tiaris to support both entertainment related (video and audio) as well as PC-related (data) content. Founded in 2000 by an experienced team with accomplished track records in cutting-edge transmission, networking and semiconductor technologies, and with the assistance of Cedar Fund's Pre-Seed(TM) initiative, Tiaris is a private, venture-backed U.S. company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts and with research and development facilities in Israel. For additional information about Tiaris, please visit www.tiaris.com. |
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