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[FYI] S3M demonstrates low-cost Internet access via satellite
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- From: Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)
- Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 18:20:48 +0100
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CORDIS RTD-NEWS/c European Communities, 1999.
Record Control Number: 13034
Date: 1999-05-31
Category: Result
General Information:
More than 37 million European households connected
to SMATV (Satellite Master Antenna Television)
installations can benefit from the future
deployment of Interactive TV and other attractive
applications using the low-cost, satellite-based
interactive system trailed by the ACTS' S3M (SMATV
in the 3rd millennium) project.
Small SMATV systems are considered a strategic
sector due to their high penetration in several
European countries. The sharing of equipment among
a group of users living in a building is the key
to a very low-cost interactive service provision
in this environment.
Two specific service scenarios are addressed by
S3M:
- Interactive TV applications;
- Internet multimedia services for Small Office
Home Office and Professional Consumers
applications.
The S3M project is developing pre-operational
equipment based on the work of two earlier
European projects. The RACE project contributed to
the standardisation of satellite digital TV for
SMATV systems. The ACTS DIGISAT project has
defined and demonstrated the innovative system
concepts that are now being implemented by S3M.
The European Space Agency will contribute to the
work of S3M by sponsoring complementary activities
oriented to the pre-commercialisation of the
developed equipment.
Data Source Provider: European Commission, DG XIII
Document Reference: Based on a news report on the
INFOWIN server.
Programme Acronym: FRAMEWORK 4C; ACTS
Subject Index Codes: Telecommunications; Other
Technology; Innovation, Technology Transfer
Contact Person:
For further information, please contact:
Miguel Angel Panduro
Hispasat SA
Apto: 95000
E-28080 Madrid
Tel. +34-91-3729000; Fax +34-91-3728941
E-mail: sub-telecom@hispasat.es
URL:
http://www.infowin.org/ACTS/RUS/PROJECTS/ac313.htm