Piggyback ride.In order to get enough network power to provide videoconferencing A real time video session between two or more users or between two or more locations. Although the first videoconferencing was done with traditional analog TV and satellites, inhouse room systems became popular in the early 1980s after Compression Labs pioneered digitized video systems , Imperial County administrators simply looked down. They forged forge 1 n. 1. A furnace or hearth where metals are heated or wrought; a smithy. 2. A workshop where pig iron is transformed into wrought iron. v. a partnership with a local utility company, imperial Irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. District, which had installed a network backbone in its canals. After some negotiation--with the county assuring that it wouldn't impair im·pair tr.v. im·paired, im·pair·ing, im·pairs To cause to diminish, as in strength, value, or quality: an injury that impaired my hearing; a severe storm impairing communications. company operations--the schools gained access to some of the utility's fiber and used it to create a wide area network. This helped keep the technology within financial reach. |
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