Oceanic Time Warner Cable, which serves the state of Hawaii, has deployed a Scientific-Atlanta Prisma DT digital transport system to provide a variety of interconnect services for its cable TV and cable modem customers on the islands of Oahu, Maui and Hawaii. A fourth segment of the system is currently being installed on Kauai. The Scientific-Atlanta transport system will be used to deliver five major applications for Oceanic on the four islands via an undersea fiber optic cable network:
- Video on Demand -- at the master headend on Oahu, library servers are used to store all VOD content. This central master site downloads content updates to remote servers that are located close to customers on each island. Oceanic is using a variety of Scientific-Atlanta Explorer set-tops.
Cable modem service -- traffic is transported among the islands to the system's master headend on Oahu.
Off-air broadcast channels -- on each island, local off-air broadcast content is captured at the broadcasters' studios and transported to the Prisma DT network using the Prisma DTx service adapter.
High-speed data service for government -- existing networks on three islands have been interconnected over OC3 and OC48 rings.
Content delivery -- Oceanic is satellite downlinking its entire cable programming at its facilities on Oahu and using ASI to transport it on the Prisma DT system for delivery to customers.
