Continental Cablevision, LANcity preparing commercial deployment of high-speed data services; Contract for 50,000 LANcity personal cable modems results from successful cable modem trials.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 1996--Data-over-broadband- cable pioneers Continental Cablevision Inc. and LANcity Corp. have signed the largest contract on record for extended deployment of cable modems. Per a two-year agreement signed June 25, LANcity will supply Continental Cablevision 50,000 LANcity Personal (LCP (Link Control Protocol) See PPP. LCP - Link Control Protocol ) cable modems for installation throughout Continental's systems in New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. , Florida and Illinois. Shipments and installations begin immediately. "This is an agreement for off-the-shelf hardware that's ready today. Data over cable with LANcity equipment is a viable technology and a profitable service that is ready for customer deployment," said David Fellows, senior vice president of Engineering and Technology for Continental. "Over the past five years, our company and LANcity have worked together successfully deploying cable-modem-based data services at multiple pilot sites in New England, California, Florida, and especially in the large-scale Boston College Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing 'Project Agora' site here in Massachusetts. LANcity has system-level technology available today and an exiting road map for the future. We are eager to move forward with our deployment plans using LANcity's modems and our open architecture." "Many of the features in LANcity cable modems are based on joint field experiences in multiple pilot installations with Continental Cablevision," reveals Rouzbeh Yassini Rouzbeh Yassini is an Iranian-American engineer, self-credited with creating the cable modem and helped propel broadband through cable. He was the founder of LANcity and helped establish the cable modem industry standard (DOCSIS) through Cable Television Laboratories. , founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of LANcity. "Ideas such as cable modem plug-and-play, quality of service provisioning, Continental, LANcity Prepare Commercial Deployment data encryption data encryption, the process of scrambling stored or transmitted information so that it is unintelligible until it is unscrambled by the intended recipient. Historically, data encryption has been used primarily to protect diplomatic and military secrets from foreign and enhanced network management are based on feedback Continental Cablevision has provided us. To meet new requirements, our product architectures' software capabilities enable a future-proof system solution. Continental Cablevision is a pioneer in cable-based data services, and LANcity is proud of its strong working relationship with them." LANcity's LCP plug-and-play design offers cable operators the lowest possible cost to integrated cable modems for subscribers and headends. As a result, the cost of entry for cable modem services has been reduced from $600 per subscriber to less than $500. LANcity's LCP has now been deployed at more than 25,000 sites worldwide. This popular product was introduced in August, 1995 as the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for cable modems. LCP continues to offer the fastest application-independent performance, longest distances and lowest costs possible over cable broadband networks  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. , operating at the rate of 10 Mbps upstream and downstream -- 1,000 times faster than most phone modems -- across 200 miles. LCP's application-independent, future-proof open architecture is ideally suited for home-offices, video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. , distributed servers and web-page provisions. At the same time, LANcity continues to work with Continental and other cable operators on an interoperable specification for cable modems. Founded in 1990, LANcity Corp. now stands as the leading cable modem designer, manufacturer and marketer for new data services over broadband networks. This privately owned firm pioneered data-over-cable technology, innovated cable connectivity to the Internet, and broke the speed, distance and price barriers for personal cable modems. LANcity continues to advance the industry with a state-of-the-art product family that adheres to existing computer and cable TV standards See NTSC, DTV and HDTV. at the most affordable price. LANcity is the world standard in cable modems. Continental Cablevision Inc. the nation's third largest cable company, serves more than 4.3 million subscribers in 20 states and is a part-owner of joint ventures providing cable television service in Argentina, Australia and Singapore. -0- LANcity is registered trademark of LANcity Corp. LANcity Personal (LCP) is a trademark of LANcity Corp. CONTACT: Sharon Brucato Marketing Communications Marketing communications (or marcom) are messages and related media used to communicate with a market. Those who practice advertising, branding, direct marketing, graphic design, marketing, packaging, promotion, publicity, sponsorship, public relations, sales, sales , LANcity 508/682-1600 x361 sharon@cablemodem.com or Rob Stoddard Director of Corporate Communications, Continental Cablevision 617/854-3138 Rstoddard@ph.continental.com |
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