Columbia Communications announces new Atlantic digital video service.WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1997--Columbia Communications Corp. is now offering a new compressed digital video service in partnership with Teleport London International (TLI (Transport Level Interface) A common interface for transport services (layer 4 of the OSI model). It provides a common language to a transport protocol and allows client/server applications to be used in different networking environments. ) and Washington International Teleport (WIT). This was announced by Kenneth Gross, president of Columbia Communications at the WIT breakfast meeting during the recent Satellite '97 conference in Washington D.C. Known as Atlantic Digilink, the two-way compressed digital video service between London and Washington was described by Mr. Gross as "the most competitively priced video service of its kind, available." He went on to draw an example of Atlantic Digilink components for a London-Washington circuit: "London service would include fiber connection from the BT tower in London to the uplink facility at TLI and utilization of Scientific Atlanta power compression equipment using an 8 MBPS, MPEG-2, DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) An international digital television (DTV) standard that is the European and Far Eastern counterpart of the North American ATSC standard. compatible format. "The space segment is provided on the COLUMBIA/TDRSS Satellite System. Downlink facilities include decoders at WIT and connection into the Bell Atlantic switch." He noted that deployable decoders will be available for shipment to downlink locations wherever needed throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Mr. Gross added that Atlantic Digilink service was the result of a strong cooperative effort between TLI, WIT and Columbia, responding to customer requirements for end-to-end compressed digital video solutions. While rates would be even lower for individual significant usage commitments, ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. services are priced at $895 per hour for the entire package. Columbia Communications currently markets its Sky Way(TM) family of domestic, international and maritime telecommunications services to a wide variety of commercial and governmental users throughout Asia, North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe. These services are provided via the COLUMBIA/TDRSS AOR AOR The ISO 4217 currency code for Angolan Reajustado Kwanza. , AOR-II AND POR POR problem-oriented record. POR abbr. problem-oriented record POR Problem-Oriented Record. satellites -- the backbone of the company's numerous voice, data and video service offerings. Columbia maintains offices and operations in Honolulu and the Washington D.C. area. CONTACT: Columbia Communications Corp. Kenneth Gross, 301/907-7700 Raymond Sweeney, 808/533-0033 |
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