IP: The Networked Family

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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:45:09 -0400
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From: Craig Birkmaier <craig () pcube com>






Yesterday, I pointed people to the New York Times to see an article about
technically advanced consumers that may drive the early phases of the
transition to the networked home. Today in it's personal computing section,
The Times has a story about technology options for the networked home:


http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/compcol/063098compcol-fixmer.html


The story makes no mention of PC/TV technology or the role that home
networks may play in capturing and feeding Data Broadcasts to the
information appliances connected to the home network. FireWire and
100basedT, however, are both capable of delivering isochronous video
streams to multiple appliances connected to the home media server.


Regards
Craig Birkmaier
Pcube Labs


Here's the lead...


PERSONAL COMPUTING / By ROB FIXMER


Networks for Super-Linked Families


As the planet becomes increasingly networked, shrinking the globe and
redefining age-old concepts of community, all this digital connectivity has
so far bypassed our most fundamental social unit, the family.


Now, a rapidly emerging new industry is betting that the next "killer app"
will be a network in your home.


Already, according to the Dataquest research firm, two or more computers
are being used in some 15 million American households, a number that is
expected to more than triple by 2002. The assumption that people will want
all those computers to talk to one another, from bedroom to den to living
room, kitchen, deck and patio, has touched off a race for a chunk of a what
Wedbush Morgan Securities of Los Angeles estimates will be a $4 billion
market within four years.