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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Any experience using commercial cable TV as a MAN?
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Date: 9 Oct 89 18:09:35 GMT
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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Has anyone ever investigated using a couple of channels from a town's
cable TV system as the basis of a metropolitan-area network?  I'm completely
ignorant of the technology and its limitations, but I'd think that something
like this *might* work with broadband modems and the right link-level hardware.
For connection to a regional network also located in the same town
(e.g., NEARnet), it might be preferable to lots of relatively low speed
leased lines.

I'd appreciate hearing from people who know a little bit more about
the issues and whether or not this is completely unrealistic.

-- 
Steve Dyer
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dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu