Artel Launches New Web Site: www.artel.tv; Artel Enters The .tv Domain to Promote Its Digital TV Transport Solutions.Business/Technology Editors MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2000 Today Artel Artel (Russian: арте́ль) is a general term for various cooperative associations in Russia, historical and modern. launched its new Web site in the .tv Internet domain to focus its strategy on the transformation happening in the digital television and rich media infrastructure market. "The .tv domain name has been introduced in anticipation of the convergence of video-based entertainment services with the traditional service offered through the Internet," said Mike Riley
The Web site features Artel's newest product called Cross Stream, a family of video access multiplexers. The Cross Stream is designed for the transport of digital television over packet networks used by cable television companies and telecommunication service providers and is capable of handling the coming flood of rich media entertainment destined des·tine tr.v. des·tined, des·tin·ing, des·tines 1. To determine beforehand; preordain: a foolish scheme destined to fail; a film destined to become a classic. 2. for living rooms. These products are capturing the focus of the cable television infrastructure market that is building out networks to facilitate the delivery of digital television and interactive TV over asynchronous transfer mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. (ATM) networks. The .tv is the latest top-level domain (networking) top-level domain - The last and most significant component of an Internet fully qualified domain name, the part after the last ".". For example, host wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk is in top-level domain "uk" (for United Kingdom). (TLD (Top Level Domain) The highest level domain category in the Internet domain naming system. There are two types: the generic top level domains (gTLDs) such as .com, .org, and .net, and the country codes, such as .ca, .uk and .jp. See gTLD and Internet domain name. ) available to companies and individuals on the Internet. There are currently three other basic TLDs for private individuals and companies to register: .com, .net and .org. The .tv domain is experiencing explosive growth with more than 100,000 .tv domain names registered in just six months. It took the .com domain more than six years to reach the same benchmark. About Artel Video Systems Artel provides video networking systems to cable TV and telecommunications service providers who need to satisfy the consumer's ever growing appetite for broadband digital entertainment. Artel's products are transforming the world's networking infrastructures by enabling the transmission of broadcast and interactive TV over standards based multi-service networks. Artel is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts Marlborough is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 36,255 at the 2000 census. The name of this town is sometimes spelled as Marlboro, rather than Marlborough, which is the official spelling. , USA, with sales and service centers worldwide. Further information about the company is available on the World Wide Web at www.artel.tv. |
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