D&P's Smart Switch Foils Theft of Cable Services From Modem Subscribers.Business Editors A simple switch is all cable companies need to stop the newest breed of cable pirates This is a list of known pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, and others involved in piracy. This list includes both captains and prominent crew members. See also: pirates, wokou, buccaneers, corsairs, and privateers Ancient World 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. Service and get cable video services for free. The industry loses revenues and the thieves are rewarded for their ingenuity. Not so fast says Gunther Diefes, Vice-President of D&P Manufacturing. D&P's new patented technology solves the problem. An off-premise intelligent switch controlled by a computer in the head-end, allows for independent control and monitoring of every channel on the system. "This addressability feature allows a cable operator to prevent theft of services Theft of services is the legal term for a crime which is committed when a person obtains valuable services — as opposed to goods — by deception, force, threat or other unlawful means, i.e., without lawfully compensating the provider of said services. before it even gets started," Diefes explained. A related benefit of this technology is that "Cable Operators will be instantaneously in·stan·ta·ne·ous adj. 1. Occurring or completed without perceptible delay: Relief was instantaneous. 2. able to determine the number or percentage of households within a system watching a particular program at any given time, providing operators with the data to support their claim for additional advertising dollars," Diefes added. The system also allows previewing of premium channels, a feature that should attract a greater number of viewers. Additional features include impulse pay-per-view and separation of the channel surfing Channel surfing is the practice of quickly scanning through different television channels or radio frequencies in order to find something interesting to watch or listen to. and security function as recently mandated by the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. . Based upon Patent #6,067,440, recently awarded to Diefes, D&P Manufacturing, is developing the technology which can be easily installed into existing cable plants with little modification. "We expect to be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of this low-cost technology at an upcoming cable industry trade show," Diefes noted. |
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